A 9 μA, addressable Gen2 sensor tag for biosignal acquisition

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2198-2209

  Yeager, Daniel ^a   Zhang, Fan ^a   Zarrasvand, Azin ^b   George, Nicole T ^c   Daniel, Thomas ^c   Otis, Brian P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

analog; Biomedical; implantable electronics; low power; RFID

Indexed keywords

ANALOG; BIOMEDICAL; IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONICS; LOW POWER; RFID;

BIOSENSORS;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77957590291     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2063930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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