Special session in NFC and Contactless Communication Technologies – enhancing functionalities and improving interoperability

Organizer:
Dr. Michael Gebhart, NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH, Gratkorn, Austria

Extended deadline: March 8, 2013

Driven by the emerging Near Field Communication (NFC) interface for mobile personal devices, like Smartphones or Tablet PCs, Contactless Communication Technologies emerge from a Card technology and truly become available for everyone in daily life. This opens the door for new and different applications, e.g., in the automotive sector, or, for Ambient Assisted Living in the health sector. This is enabled by new developments, like Active Load Modulation for battery-powered devices to allow small antenna form factors, or the PxD functionality, which allows a device to operate in Card or Reader mode.

In this Special Session we will catch up with the latest research and product developments, measurement methods, application scenarios and concept studies.

Authors are encouraged to submit their contributions related to the Special Session main theme – NFC and Contactless Communication Technologies – and especially the following topics:

  • Interoperability of different RFID and Contactless SmartCard standards and the test environment for contactless characterization,
  • Smart antenna design (e.g. smaller antennas, detuning compensation) and signal processing to give arbitrary objects secure SmartCard functionality
  • Combination of different technologies (e.g. HF / UHF) to extend capabilities for new applications, emission & immission,
  • Very High Data Rates for NFC and SmartCards,
  • Emerging NFC technologies and topics related to the integration into Smartphones, emerging modulation techniques,
  • Integration of RFID chips on printed circuit boards for logistics applications and integration of RFID IP-blocks as part of ASIC chip design.

Paper should be formatted according to the general conference paper format, and submitted through EDAS (select the special session under topics). The paper submission, review, and publication rules are the same as for the general conference.

The paper submission deadline has been extended to March 8, 2013.

To see detailed instructions, go to Paper Submission, or to submit a paper, go directly to submission page in EDAS.

Session organizer:

The session organizer, Dr. Michael Gebhart, is a Senior RF System Engineer at NXP Semiconductors, with 8+ years of working experience in Semiconductor Design for the field of NFC, RFID and contactless secure SmartCards. He was actively involved in the evolution of characterization methods, and was also driving ISO/IEC standardization with technical contributions on the HF air interface layers. Complementary to his role in characterization of ISO/IEC15693 (Vicinity) and ISO/IEC14443 (Proximity) compliant products and antenna design, he is also involved in concept engineering for the contactless interface of upcoming chip platforms, and in pre-development studies. Born in Linz, Austria, in 1971, Michael has studied electrical engineering at Graz University of Technology with focus on Communication and Electronics, graduated to Dipl.-Ing. in 1999, to Dr. techn. (with honors) in 2004 and to MSc (with honors) in a University program on Space Sciences in 2007. He is a member of IEEE and his interests include wireless and contactless technologies, optical communication, electronic system development and space sciences. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers, holds 4 patents and keeps a vital relation to University and research.

For more details abut the special session, feel free to contact Dr. Gebhart at michael dot gebhart at nxp dot com, or  gebhart at ieee.org.