Multicoils-based inductive links dedicated to power up implantable medical devices: Modeling, design and experimental results

Biomedical Microdevices

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1059-1070

  Sawan, Mohamad ^a   Hashemi, Saeid ^a   Sehil, Mohamed ^a   Awwad, Falah ^a   Hajj Hassan, Mohamad ^a   Khouas, Abdelhakim ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inductive link; Medical microdevices; Power transfer efficiency; Smart implants; Wireless power transfer

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENTS; FABRICATION PROCESS; IMPLANTABLE DEVICES; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; INDUCTIVE LINK; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; MEDICAL MICRO-DEVICES; METAL THICKNESS; MICROCOILS; OXIDE LAYER; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; SIMULATED MODEL; SIMULATION TOOL; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER;

MATLAB; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POWER CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; TOPOLOGY;

SIMULATORS;

METAL; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMPLANT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 70549104631     PISSN: 13872176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-009-9323-7     Document Type: Article

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