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Exceptional points enhance wireless readout

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In vivo sensors can be interrogated using a wireless system locked to an exceptional point, providing a sensitivity beyond the capabilities of standard wireless readout schemes.

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Fig. 1: An EP-locked reader can wirelessly interrogate the state of a microsensor.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Pai-Yen Chen

  2. Department of Physics and Henes Center for Quantum Phenomena, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

    Ramy El-Ganainy

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

    Ramy El-Ganainy

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Chen, PY., El-Ganainy, R. Exceptional points enhance wireless readout. Nat Electron 2, 323–324 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-019-0293-3

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