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Georgia Tech researcher Manos Tentzeris holdingup one of his inkjet-printed antennas.<\/p>
Georgia Tech researcher Manos Tentzeris holding
up one of his inkjet-printed antennas.<\/p>
What’s the News:<\/strong> With all of the electronics cluttering our daily lives, the air is abuzz with ambient electromagnetic energy<\/a> from sources like cell phone networks, radio and television transmitters, and satellite communications systems. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have devised a simple, cheap way to harness that wasted energy: capturing it with inkjet-printed antennas and storing it in batteries<\/a>.<\/p> How the Heck:<\/strong><\/p> Electrical engineer Manos Tentzeris and his team created an ink mixture containing nanoparticles of silver, which, as a conductor<\/a>, is useful for building circuits<\/a>. Using an inkjet printer, they printed radio frequency components and circuits onto paper and flexible plastic. Georgia Tech researcher Manos Tentzeris holdingup one of his inkjet-printed antennas.What’s the News: With all of the electronics cluttering our daily lives, the air is abuzz with ambient electromagnetic energy from sources like cell phone networks, radio and television transmitters, … Continue reading
The printed antennas receive a wide range of frequencies—100 MHz to 60 GHz (that is, all the way from FM radio<\/a> to radar<\/a>). The researchers installed the antennas in miniature devices that collect the energy, convert it to DC<\/a> power, and store it in ...<\/p><\/a>
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