IEEE Poland AP/AES/MTT Joint Chapter - AP-S DL Talk by prof. Sima Noghanian: "Biofriendly Antennas: Antennas Made of Recyclable Materials"
Every year, 20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed of. Only 12.5% of e-waste is currently recycled. Many electronic sensors and devices are made using Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), which consist of metallic and dielectric parts. For the conductive parts, mostly copper, silver, and gold are used, which are recyclable. The dielectric part, however, is harder to recycle. Most of the non-metal waste of printed circuit boards is therefore treated as landfill (76%-94%). Despite the challenges in recycling PCBs, we see an enormous increase in the usage of electronics, such as wireless sensors and antennas. These sensors and antennas may be used for applications in the environment and agriculture (such as forest fire detection, greenhouse monitoring, landslide detection, leakage monitoring, pollution monitoring, temperature detection, biohazardous material detection), water management, biomedical vital signal monitoring and sensing, biomedical implants, smart homes, and structural health monitoring. The growing number of wireless sensors poses the challenge of using recyclable and sustainable materials for the dielectric part of antennas. Another challenge is the design of non-conventional radio frequency (RF) devices with miniaturized size while working in environments such as human or animal bodies. In this talk, an overview of some wearable and implanted antenna designs using bio-friendly materials, such as textiles, paper, and PLA, will be given. The design challenges and considerations will be reviewed.
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- Mickiewicza 30 Av.
- Krakow, Malopolskie
- Poland 31-875
- Building: D-5
- Room Number: 106
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- Co-sponsored by AGH University of Krakow, Poland
- Starts 12 August 2026 10:00 PM UTC
- Ends 20 August 2026 10:00 PM UTC
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Sima Noghanian of CommScope Ruckus Networks
Biofriendly Antennas: Antennas Made of Recyclable Materials
Biography:
Sima Noghanian is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Ruckus Networks. She was a consultant with Neuspera Medical Inc and StrokeDx. Dr. Noghanian received a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which she held at the University of Waterloo. She served as an Electrical Engineering faculty member at the Sharif University of Technology, the University of Manitoba, Canada, and the University of North Dakota, USA. She also served as the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of North Dakota. She was an Electromagnetic Application Engineer with PADT Inc., and a Principal Antenna Design Engineer at Wafer LLC prior to joining Ruckus Networks.
Dr. Noghanian is a senior member of IEEE, a fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), and a senior member of URSI Commissions B and K. Dr. Noghanian currently serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, Frontiers in Antennas and Propagation, and as an area editor for the Elsevier International Journal of Electronics and Communications. She was a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Administration Committee (2023–2025), Chair of the Technical Committee on Antenna Measurement (TCAM, 2024–2025). She is currently a member of the Technical Committee Health and Medicine, the Vice Chair of the AP-S Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Chair of USNC-URSI Commission K, a member of the IEEE AP-S Standards Committee, and Vice President of ACES, and AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2024-2026).
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