System-on-Chip RF Sensors for Life and Geo Sciences

In this chapter we present two innovative contributions derived by the System-on-Chip (SoC) approach combining standard microelectronic technologies with the life and geo-sciences. The former regards a SoC radar sensor for contactless cardiopulmonary monitoring. The latter focuses on a SoC radiometer for temperature remote sensing. For both micro-sensors we report the framework and motivation, theoretical concepts, current results, and the future direction of ongoing research by the authors.