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Usage of the yarns/knots to create wireless devices (e.g., RFID devices) and other circuit components
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARY Drexel’s engineers, designers and clinicians have created the smart fabric Bellyband – a fabric-based, wireless biometric system for monitoring uterine contractions and fetal heartbeat during pregnancy. Bellyband is designed to replace currently used bulky fetal and contractions monitors that connect to stationary...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Genevieve Dion, Adam Fontecchio, Timothy Kurzweg, Kapil Dandekar, Damiano Patron, Owen Montgomery
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Category(s): Textiles, Medical Devices, Diagnostics & Biosensors, Electronics
Transparent Conformal polymer antennas for RFID and other wireless communications applications
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY An optically transparent conformal polymer antenna and a method for producing the antenna from optically transparent conductive polymers. The method includes selecting an antenna design; providing an optically transparent conductive polymer material capable of being printed using an ink jet printer device; and...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Kapil Dandekar, Adam Fontecchio, Timothy Kurzweg
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Category(s): Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Communications
Dynamic Time Multiplexing Fabrication of Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals for Increased Wavelength Sensitivity
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Described herein is a new holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) medium with broadband reflective properties, and a new technique for fabrication of broadband HPDLC mediums. The new technique involves dynamic variation of the holography setup during HPDLC formation, enabling the broadening of the...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Adam Fontecchio, Kashma Rai
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Category(s): Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Advanced Materials & Chemicals
Polymer dispersed liquid crystal photovoltaic device and method for making
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY A novel photovoltaic device including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material that is capable of converting solar energy to electrical energy and method for making. The device may optionally include a conductive container for holding the PDLC material. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention is directed...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Adam Fontecchio, Jared Coyle
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Category(s): Energy, Advanced Materials & Chemicals, Clean Tech & Sustainability
Direct integration of individually controlled pixels into a knitted fabric matrix to produce a dynamic textile display
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY A flexible and scalable emissive fabric display with individually controllable pixels disposed within a fabric matrix. The pixels may include areas where electroluminescent thread contact conductive threads, and take the form of either individual stitches, or contact points between perpendicularly inlayed conductive...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Adam Fontecchio, Alyssa Bellingham Martin
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Category(s): Electrical Engineering, Textiles, Electronics
Tunable electro-optic filter stack
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY A holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) tunable filter exhibits switching times of no more than 20 microseconds. The HPDLC tunable filter can be utilized in a variety of applications. An HPDLC tunable filter stack can be utilized in a hyperspectral imaging system capable of spectrally multiplexing...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Adam Fontecchio, Alyssa Bellingham Martin, Sameet Shriyan
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Category(s): Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Advanced Materials & Chemicals