Wireless technology is commonplace in our daily life. Soon, it will become equally diffused in the fields of medicine and healthcare, where it aids people's well-being and improves the quality of life. This project produces novel multimodal body-centric antenna systems that enable robust intra- and on-body communications and centralized wireless power transfer to multiple implanted devices simultaneously. Here, anatomically accurate models of the human body combined with modern electromagnetic field solvers will enable the judicious optimization of the system, considering the robustness of operation within the inherently variable and dynamic operating environment as its key characteristics. The centralized wireless powering enables miniature battery-free implantable devices that achieve the longevity of a lifetime, and through the multimodal operation, they also signal with other implants and wearable units wirelessly.

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