Francesca Benassi

About

Francesca Benassi received PhD Degree in Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies Engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2022. She is currently a Junior Assistant Professor at DEI Guglielmo Marconi working on design of wearable rectennas for Wireless Power Transfer applications both at microwave and at millimeter waves. In 2021, she received the MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award and she was also an awardee of the 2021 EuMA Internship Award.

Employment

• University of Bologna Junior Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• University of Bologna Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2022 - 2023
• University of Bologna PhD Student
  2018 - 2022

Education

• University of Bologna Master Degree in Biomedical Engineer
  2014 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (22)

• TE-Polarized Bessel-Beam Launchers for Wireless Power Transfer at Millimeter Waves: Theory, Design, and Experimental Validation
  IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3465011
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• Design of TE-polarized resonant Bessel-beam launchers for wireless power transfer links in the radiative near-field region
  International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies 2024 DOI: 10.1017/S1759078723001538
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• Microwave Devices for Wearable Sensors and IoT
  Sensors 2023 DOI: 10.3390/s23094356
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• Microwave-Enabled Wearables: Underpinning Technologies, Integration Platforms, and Next-Generation Roadmap
  IEEE Journal of Microwaves 2023 DOI: 10.1109/JMW.2022.3223254
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• Effective TE-Polarized Bessel-Beam Excitation for Wireless Power Transfer Near-Field Links
  2022 52nd European Microwave Conference (EuMC) 2022 DOI: 10.23919/eumc54642.2022.9924485
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• Analysis of Rectifiers Under Various Multitone Excitations and Using Different Diodes in Low-Power Conditions
  2022 IEEE 12th International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA) 2022 DOI: 10.1109/rfid-ta54958.2022.9924068
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• Circuit Techniques for Efficient SWIPT
  2022 IEEE 12th International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA) 2022 DOI: 10.1109/rfid-ta54958.2022.9923951
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• A Wireless/Wired UHF Modular System Combining Energy and Data Transfer
  2022 Wireless Power Week (WPW) 2022 DOI: 10.1109/wpw54272.2022.9854023
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• A novel Hexagonal Excitation for a Multi-Layer Wearable Miniaturized Antenna
  2022 Microwave Mediterranean Symposium (MMS) 2022 DOI: 10.1109/mms55062.2022.9825615
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• Wireless Power Transfer for Wearable and Implantable Devices: a Review Focusing on the WPT4WID Research Project of National Relevance
  2021 XXXIVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS) 2021 DOI: 10.23919/ursigass51995.2021.9560425
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