Collection 10 March 2025

Top 25 downloaded papers of 2024

This collection highlights the most downloaded* papers published by Communications Engineering in 2024. Research features authors from numerous countries around the world, and from both academic and industrial research settings. Fields with a strong presence in our 2024 Collection include clean energy research, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, robotics, and mechanical engineering.

*Data obtained from SN Insights, which is based on Digital Science’s Dimensions.

Top articles

Time-series forecasting through recurrent topology

Chomiak and Hu introduce a versatile time-series data prediction algorithm using recurring local topological patterning. This algorithm reduces computational complexity and cost, and its feasibility is demonstrated across various dynamic systems including macroeconomic, wearable sensor, and dynamic population systems.
- Taylor Chomiak
- Bin Hu
ArticleOpen Access9 Jan 2024 Communications Engineering
Solutions for decarbonising urban bus transport: a life cycle case study in Saudi Arabia

Chengcheng Zhao and co-authors study the potential of battery electric buses and hydrogen polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell buses. They analyse their usage in urban transport and quantify the environmental impact.
- Chengcheng Zhao
- Leiliang Zheng Kobayashi
- S. Mani Sarathy
ArticleOpen Access9 Jul 2024 Communications Engineering
Spike frequency adaptation: bridging neural models and neuromorphic applications

This review explores adaptive neuron models from computational neuroscience, emphasizing their significance in the future development of power efficient artificial intelligence applications and hardware integration.
- Chittotosh Ganguly
- Sai Sukruth Bezugam
- Manan Suri
Review ArticleOpen Access1 Feb 2024 Communications Engineering
Curving THz wireless data links around obstacles

Hichem Guerboukha and colleagues present a reliable high-data-rate THz communications system when the line of sight between the transmitter and receiver is blocked. They design the near-field wavefront to generate a curved trajectory.
- Hichem Guerboukha
- Bin Zhao
- Daniel M. Mittleman
ArticleOpen Access30 Mar 2024 Communications Engineering
Computer numerical control knitting of high-resolution mosquito bite blocking textiles

Bryan Holt, Kyle Oswalt and colleagues design the mosquito bite-proof knitting pattern. Their approach can be implemented in programmable knitting robots for mass production.
- Bryan Holt
- Kyle Oswalt
- John Beckmann
ArticleOpen Access27 Aug 2024 Communications Engineering
Cost modeling for the GWh-scale production of modern lithium-ion battery cells

Battery production cost models are critical for evaluating cost competitiveness but frequently lack transparency and standardization. A bottom-up approach for calculating the full cost, marginal cost, and levelized cost of various battery production methods is proposed, enriched by a browser-based modular user tool.
- Maximilian Lechner
- Anna Kollenda
- Arno Kwade
ArticleOpen Access3 Nov 2024 Communications Engineering
Radar near-field sensing using metasurface for biomedical applications

Mohammad Omid Bagheri and colleagues introduce a metasurface-enhanced millimetre-wave radar system designed for near-field biosensing. Their device adapts to the properties of the skin-device interface, providing heightened diagnostic precision in wearable healthcare monitoring applications.
- Mohammad Omid Bagheri
- Ali Gharamohammadi
- George Shaker
ArticleOpen Access19 Mar 2024 Communications Engineering
A high-resolution handheld millimeter-wave imaging system with phase error estimation and compensation

Millimeter-wave imaging using handheld devices suffers from significant degradation due to motion errors. Yan Chen and colleagues report an approach to correct the phase errors by introducing a reference target. The approach could recover high-fidelity 3D mmWave images from severely distorted signals.
- Yadong Li
- Dongheng Zhang
- Yan Chen
ArticleOpen Access5 Jan 2024 Communications Engineering
Electrocaloric cooling system utilizing latent heat transfer for high power density

Julius Metzdorf and colleagues present a heatpipe system that combines solid-state electrocaloric material with condensation and evaporation of ethanol fluid. The results demonstrate an enhanced cooling power density, which is one order of magnitude higher than that of traditional ceramic electrocaloric systems.
- Julius Metzdorf
- Patrick Corhan
- Kilian Bartholomé
ArticleOpen Access21 Mar 2024 Communications Engineering
Clustering method for time-series images using quantum-inspired digital annealer technology

Tomoki Inoue and colleagues report a time-series data clustering algorithm using a quantum-inspired digital annealer technology to improve the clustering performance. The algorithm was implemented to cluster time-series data derived from benchmark problems and flow measurement images.
- Tomoki Inoue
- Koyo Kubota
- Yu Matsuda
ArticleOpen Access10 Jan 2024 Communications Engineering
Genetically synthesized supergain broadband wire-bundle antenna

Vovchuk et al. utilized generic algorithms to demonstrate a multi-wire superdirective antenna. The small device not only surpasses common directivity bounds but also demonstrates a superbandwidth, thus making it useful for wireless communications.
- Dmytro Vovchuk
- Gilad Uziel
- Pavel Ginzburg
ArticleOpen Access23 Jul 2024 Communications Engineering
Hybrid graphenic and iron oxide photocatalysts for the decomposition of synthetic chemicals

Moreira et al. developed an iron oxide/graphenic carbon hybrid photocatalyst for the decomposition of PFAS contaminants, under UV light. Their method offers a cheap and efficient alternative that achieves > 85% efficiency for PFOA decomposition under UV light.
- Raphaell Moreira
- Ehsan B. Esfahani
- Earl J. Foster
ArticleOpen Access21 Aug 2024 Communications Engineering
Wireless power and information dual transfer system via magnetically coupled resonators

Medium-range wireless power transfer using magnetically coupled resonators requires a wireless data link between the contactless coils to regulate power. Here, Xiangning He and colleagues report a wireless power transfer system which efficiently multiplexes the information modulation and signal channel with the power conversion and transfer channel.
- Xiangning He
- Sheng Liu
- Wanying Weng
ArticleOpen Access8 Jan 2024 Communications Engineering
Lightweight active back exosuit reduces muscular effort during an hour-long order picking task

Chung, Quirk and colleagues present a lightweight active back exosuit to assist workers when lifting. Testing in a simulated one-hour order picking task demonstrates the device has practical usability and reduces back muscle effort by 18%.
- Jinwon Chung
- D. Adam Quirk
- Conor J. Walsh
ArticleOpen Access23 Feb 2024 Communications Engineering
Degradation in parallel-connected lithium-ion battery packs under thermal gradients

Max Naylor Marlow and coworkers investigate the effects of thermal gradients on lifetime degradation of parallel-string battery systems. They experimentally demonstrate previously overlooked cathode impedance growth is a key contributor to the heterogeneities on pack degradation, providing insights for battery developers.
- Max Naylor Marlow
- Jingyi Chen
- Billy Wu
ArticleOpen Access4 Jan 2024 Communications Engineering
Multi-level physics informed deep learning for solving partial differential equations in computational structural mechanics

Weiwei He and colleagues implement a multi-level physicsinformed neural network to solve partial differential equations, a key problem for efficient structure analysis. Their results improve the accuracy and computation time for solving these problems.
- Weiwei He
- Jinzhao Li
- Lu Deng
ArticleOpen Access1 Nov 2024 Communications Engineering
Decentralized dynamic system for optimal power dispatch in wind farms based on node-dependence nature

Sheng Huang, Xiaohui Huang and colleagues propose a methodology for the optimal power dispatch from the wind farms. Their method relies on local data only and allows iterative convergence.
- Sheng Huang
- Hanzhi Peng
- Yinpeng Qu
ArticleOpen Access18 Aug 2024 Communications Engineering
Open-source interactive design platform for 3D-printed microfluidic devices

Yushen Zhang and colleagues report an open source, interactive software platform for the efficient and convenient design of 3D printable microfluidic devices. The approach incorporates a design-for-manufacturing function, facilitating device fabrication using commercial consumer-grade printers.
- Yushen Zhang
- Mengchu Li
- Ulf Schlichtmann
ArticleOpen Access18 May 2024 Communications Engineering
A framework for small satellite deployable structures and how to deploy them reliably

In a Review Article, Jonathan Sauder and colleagues develop a framework to categorize the variety of deployable structures and mechanisms available for operation on small satellites.
- Jonathan Sauder
- Christine Gebara
- Carlos J. García-Mora
Review ArticleOpen Access20 May 2024 Communications Engineering
Co-assessment of costs and environmental impacts for off-grid direct air carbon capture and storage systems

Large-scale deployment of direct air carbon capture and storage (DACS) is required to offset CO2 emissions. Here, Moritz Gutsch and Jens Leker present a cost model and life cycle assessment for several combinations of off-grid DACSs, powered by photovoltaic energy and heat pumps combined with battery storage. They find a cost optimal energy system layout for implementation in Nevada USA.
- Moritz Gutsch
- Jens Leker
ArticleOpen Access16 Jan 2024 Communications Engineering
Can holographic optical storage displace Hard Disk Drives?

Chu and colleagues explore holographic data storage as a replacement for hard disk drives, introducing an energy optimization framework for Fe concentrations in iron-doped lithium niobate. Their approach results in a record-breaking performance in both read and density.
- Jiaqi Chu
- Nathanaël Cheriere
- Antony Rowstron
ArticleOpen Access18 Jun 2024 Communications Engineering
Design, modeling, and manufacturing of high strain composites for space deployable structures

Xiaofei Ma and colleagues provide a review of high-strain composite materials and their use in deployable space structures. The review contributes a broad overview of the field and discusses important design considerations for high-strain composite structures including manufacturing, viscoelasticity, and material selection.
- Xiaofei Ma
- Ning An
- Qilong Jia
Review ArticleOpen Access10 Jun 2024 Communications Engineering
Crash-perching on vertical poles with a hugging-wing robot

Mohammad Askari and colleagues report a strategy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to perch on vertical poles and trees upon crash landing. An upturned nose passively reorients the robot, while dual-purpose wings secure the robot using an enveloping grasp, not unlike a hug.
- Mohammad Askari
- Michele Benciolini
- Dario Floreano
ArticleOpen Access12 Jul 2024 Communications Engineering
Synergizing physics and machine learning for advanced battery management

Lithium-ion batteries are integral to modern technologies but the sustainability of long-term battery health is a significant and persistent challenge. In this perspective Borah and colleagues discuss the integration of physics and machine learning to support developments in battery performance and safety.
- Manashita Borah
- Qiao Wang
- Weihan Li
PerspectiveOpen Access17 Sep 2024 Communications Engineering
Programming structural and magnetic anisotropy for tailored interaction and control of soft microrobots

Yimo Yan and colleagues combined droplet-based microfluidics and controlled photopolymerization in an approach to mass produce soft microrobots with programmable structural and magnetic anisotropy. This large-scale production enabled the formation of microrobot swarms and observations of their emergent structures and behaviours.
- Yimo Yan
- Chao Song
- Simone Schuerle
ArticleOpen Access5 Jan 2024 Communications Engineering

Top 25 downloaded papers of 2024

Top articles

Time-series forecasting through recurrent topology

Solutions for decarbonising urban bus transport: a life cycle case study in Saudi Arabia

Spike frequency adaptation: bridging neural models and neuromorphic applications

Curving THz wireless data links around obstacles

Computer numerical control knitting of high-resolution mosquito bite blocking textiles

Cost modeling for the GWh-scale production of modern lithium-ion battery cells

Radar near-field sensing using metasurface for biomedical applications

A high-resolution handheld millimeter-wave imaging system with phase error estimation and compensation

Electrocaloric cooling system utilizing latent heat transfer for high power density

Clustering method for time-series images using quantum-inspired digital annealer technology

Genetically synthesized supergain broadband wire-bundle antenna

Hybrid graphenic and iron oxide photocatalysts for the decomposition of synthetic chemicals

Wireless power and information dual transfer system via magnetically coupled resonators

Lightweight active back exosuit reduces muscular effort during an hour-long order picking task

Degradation in parallel-connected lithium-ion battery packs under thermal gradients

Multi-level physics informed deep learning for solving partial differential equations in computational structural mechanics

Decentralized dynamic system for optimal power dispatch in wind farms based on node-dependence nature

Open-source interactive design platform for 3D-printed microfluidic devices

A framework for small satellite deployable structures and how to deploy them reliably

Co-assessment of costs and environmental impacts for off-grid direct air carbon capture and storage systems

Can holographic optical storage displace Hard Disk Drives?

Design, modeling, and manufacturing of high strain composites for space deployable structures

Crash-perching on vertical poles with a hugging-wing robot

Synergizing physics and machine learning for advanced battery management

Programming structural and magnetic anisotropy for tailored interaction and control of soft microrobots

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