A fully passive wireless microsystem for recording of neuropotentials using rf backscattering methods

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1119-1130

  Schwerdt, Helen N ^a   Xu, Wencheng ^a   Shekhar, Sameer ^b,c   Abbaspour Tamijani, Abbas ^b,d   Towe, Bruce C ^a   Miranda, F́lix A ^e   Chae, Junseok ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Freeform Wave Technologies   (United States)

^e NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscattering; biomicroelectromechanical systems; neural recording; neural telemetry; radio frequency (RF) identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; BIOMICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; CARRIER SIGNALS; HUMAN BODIES; IMPLANTABLE SENSORS; IN-VIVO; INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS; MICROVOLTS; MICROWATTS; MICROWAVE CARRIERS; NEURAL RECORDING; NONLINEAR MIXING; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SIGNAL AVERAGING; THIRD-ORDER; WIRELESS MICROSYSTEM; WIRELESS TELEMETRY;

BACKSCATTERING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; VARACTORS;

MICROSYSTEMS;

EID: 80053571396     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2011.2162487     Document Type: Article

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