2026 David Girbau: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	34	5902	5669	117	116	143	3797

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

5902

5669

117

116

143

3797

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index

Citations

3797

World Ranking

5902

National Ranking

117

Overview

David Girbau is affiliated with Rovira i Virgili University in Spain. Their scholarly work primarily lies within the field of Engineering, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering as major subfields. Other notable subfields include Aerospace Engineering, Media Technology, and Molecular Biology.

The main research topics covered by David Girbau encompass:

Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
Radar Systems and Signal Processing
Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
RFID technology advancements
Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis
IoT-based Smart Home Systems
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Their recent publications reflect these interests, including the following representative papers:

"Seat-Occupancy Detection System and Breathing Rate Monitoring Based on a Low-Cost mm-Wave Radar at 60 GHz," 2021, published in IEEE Access
"Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing," 2023, published in Biosensors
"Vehicle Occupancy Detector Based on FMCW mm-Wave Radar at 77 GHz," 2022, published in IEEE Sensors Journal
"Smart Face Mask with an Integrated Heat Flux Sensor for Fast and Remote People's Healthcare Monitoring," 2021, published in Sensors
"Spoofing Attacks on FMCW Radars with Low-Cost Backscatter Tags," 2022, published in Sensors

Frequent coauthors working with David Girbau include:

Antonio Lázaro
Ramón Villarino
Marc Lázaro
Beatriz Prieto-Simón
M. Cujilema

Their publications are commonly found in several scientific venues, including:

Sensors
IEEE Access
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification
Scientific Reports

Best Publications

ANALYSIS OF VITAL SIGNS MONITORING USING AN IR-UWB RADAR

Antonio Lazaro;David Girbau;Ramon Villarino

450
Citations
Radio Link Budgets for UHF RFID on Multipath Environments

A. Lazaro;D. Girbau;D. Salinas

192
Citations
Passive Wireless Temperature Sensor Based on Time-Coded UWB Chipless RFID Tags

D. Girbau;A. Ramos;A. Lazaro;S. Rima

181
Citations
Techniques for Clutter Suppression in the Presence of Body Movements during the Detection of Respiratory Activity through UWB Radars

Antonio Lázaro;David Girbau;Ramon Maria Villarino

147
Citations
A Survey of NFC Sensors Based on Energy Harvesting for IoT Applications

Antonio Lazaro;Ramon Villarino;David Girbau

141
Citations
Chipless UWB RFID Tag Detection Using Continuous Wavelet Transform

Antonio Lazaro;A. Ramos;D. Girbau;R. Villarino

120
Citations
Frequency-Coded Chipless RFID Tag Based on Dual-Band Resonators

D. Girbau;J. Lorenzo;A. Lazaro;C. Ferrater

113
Citations
Wireless Wearable Magnetometer-Based Sensor for Sleep Quality Monitoring

Stefano Milici;Antonio Lazaro;Ramon Villarino;David Girbau

100
Citations
Temporal Separation Detection for Chipless Depolarizing Frequency-Coded RFID

Angel Ramos;Etienne Perret;Olivier Rance;Smail Tedjini

92
Citations
Remote Sensing of Vital Signs Using a Doppler Radar and Diversity to Overcome Null Detection

D. Girbau;A. Lazaro;A. Ramos;R. Villarino

84
Citations
Chipless Dielectric Constant Sensor for Structural Health Testing

Antonio Lazaro;Ramon Villarino;Filippo Costa;Simone Genovesi

77
Citations
Study of intermodulation in RF MEMS variable capacitors

D. Girbau;N. Otegi;L. Pradell;A. Lazaro

74
Citations
EFFECTS OF INTERFERENCES IN UHF RFID SYSTEMS

Antonio Lazaro;David Girbau;Ramon Villarino

72
Citations
Time-Domain Measurement of Time-Coded UWB Chipless RFID Tags

Angel Ramos;Antonio Lazaro;David Girbau;Ramon Villarino

67
Citations
Simulated and Experimental Investigation of Microwave Imaging Using UWB

Antonio Lazaro;David Girbau;Ramon Villarino

65
Citations
Wavelet-Based Breast Tumor Localization Technique Using a UWB Radar

Antonio Lazaro;David Girbau;Ramon Villarino

65
Citations
Wireless Breathing Sensor Based on Wearable Modulated Frequency Selective Surface

Stefano Milici;Javier Lorenzo;Antonio Lazaro;Ramon Villarino

60
Citations
Battery-Less Soil Moisture Measurement System Based on a NFC Device With Energy Harvesting Capability

Marti Boada;Antonio Lazaro;Ramon Villarino;David Girbau

59
Citations
Vital signs monitoring using impulse based UWB signal

A. Lazaro;D. Girbau;R. Villarino;A. Ramos

56
Citations
A Passive Harmonic Tag for Humidity Sensing

Antonio Lazaro;Ramon Villarino;David Girbau

51
Citations
A Depolarizing Chipless RF Label for Dielectric Permittivity Sensing

Filippo Costa;Antonio Gentile;Simone Genovesi;Luca Buoncristiani

48
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Manuel Lazaro Rovira i Virgili University

Simone Genovesi University of Pisa

Eduard Llobet Rovira i Virgili University

Robert Plana Assystem (United Kingdom)

Carla Bittencourt University of Mons

Apostolos Georgiadis Heriot-Watt University

Ana Collado Heriot-Watt University

External Links

Personal website of David Girbau

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