Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) provide a network communication service within the vicinity of a human body. Since WBANs must provide both medical and Consumer Electronics (CE) services at the same time, the MAC protocol in WBANs must satisfy the requirements of each service, especially hwen considering the need for immediate and reliable data transmission during an emergency situation. In ...

Uncertainty creates anxiety so attempts have been made to reduce it using mathematical techniques. In the electronics industry the very large quantities of devices processed have provided reliable statistics and the opportunity to employ statistical methods. However, in fields such as decision-making and risk assessment there are strong criticisms of the probability calculus that have been trig...

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) provide medical and/or consumer electronics (CE) services within the vicinity of a human body. In a WBAN environment, immediate and reliable data transmissions during an emergency situation should be supported for medical services. In this letter, we propose a flexible emergency handling scheme for WBAN MAC protocols. The proposed scheme can be applied to sup...

This paper introduces the architecture of a robust communication framework, which allows high quality data exchange for a distributed neutron detection system that works in a radiating environment. This distributed system needs a reliable data transfer infrastructure, since both the infrastructure and the sensing electronics are exposed to radiations but the former must keep error resilient. Fo...

This paper proposes an investigation of 1200 V rated transistors with the twofold purpose of assessing their performance and robustness under representative operational conditions and of extracting guidelines for the design of reliable multi-chip power electronics modules based on SiC technology. It includes a thorough analysis of the devices steady-state and switching characteristics, as well ...

We, for the first time, demonstrated a reliable hybrid tissue-electronics interface in insects, by using silicon probes and inserting them at an early pupae stage so that the tissue grows around the probes for a highly natural implant in the insect. This work paves the way for future engineering approaches to utilize the bioelectronic interfaces and to create insect cyborgs. A successful emerge...

Historically the electronics manufacturing market has relied on a combination of human visual inspection and electrical test methods to ensure product quality. With the advent of the personal computer, the use of "machine vision" in industrial applications gradually became more common. The process where optical sensors (i.e., cameras) are used to make specific pass/fail decisions is usually des...

With the issue of sustainability once again coming under spotlight at COP 27 how can electronics, one world’s most polluting industries, reduce emissions and cut waste?