Instead of treating our research domains as separate physical disciplines, our lab addresses the three core bottlenecks standing between current technology and a world where nanoscale devices communicate wirelessly inside the body.
The first bottleneck is the physical layer problem: existing antenna and photonic designs do not scale down to dimensions where they can operate efficiently inside biological tissue and cells.
We explore how light and surface plasmons can carry information at these impossible scales, focusing on plasmonic waveguides, nano-antenna beamforming, and ultra-short-range optical links. The goal is bridging the gap between conventional electronics and molecular-scale phenomena.
The second bottleneck is the power problem: nanoscale and implantable devices simply cannot carry batteries large enough to power continuous operation within the body.
Our work tackles this directly by designing wireless power transfer systems built around the realities of human tissue. By combining inductive and resonant coupling at bio-friendly frequencies, we co-design the receiver, antenna, and power management circuits into a single safe, highly efficient system.
The third bottleneck is the interface problem: getting high-bandwidth wireless signals through the tissue-device boundary without physically damaging the tissue or losing signal integrity.
We develop non-invasive brain-machine interfaces (BMI) and optogenomic arrays that conform to soft tissue. By solving complex signal compression and wireless streaming challenges, we aim to translate these nanoscale interactions into viable clinical prosthetics and neural instrumentation.
The long-term goal is a wireless communication and sensing framework that works across scales — from a chip, to a wearable, to a device inside the body. What the research community calls the Internet of Nano-Things. Each research thread in the lab builds a piece of that picture.
We are an early-stage lab and genuinely open to collaborations, particularly with people working in materials science, circuit design, neuroscience, or clinical medicine.