A piezo-powered floating-gate sensor array for long-term fatigue monitoring in biomechanical implants

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 164-172

  Lajnef, Nizar ^a   Elvin, Niell G ^b   Chakrabartty, Shantanu ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Fatigue; Piezoelectric transducers; Self powered sensing; Strain sensors

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSOR ARRAYS; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

CMOS PROCESSES; CUMULATIVE LOADINGS; FATIGUE; FATIGUE FAILURES; FATIGUE MONITORING; GATE TRANSISTORS; IN-VIVO; MEASURED RESULTS; NOVEL METHODS; POWER DISSIPATIONS; SELF-POWERED SENSING; STRAIN LEVELS; STRAIN SENSORS; STRESS STRAINS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TOTAL POWERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 56349096320     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2008.2001473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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