Ultrasound energy harvesting system for deep implanted-medical-devices (IMDs)

ISCAS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2865-2868

  Mazzilli, Francesco ^a   Thoppay, Prakash E ^b   Praplan, Vincent ^a   Dehollain, Catherine ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Marvell   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMOS; energy harvesting; healthcare; implanted medical device; power management; sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEDICAL IMPLANT; CHARGE VOLTAGE; CLASS-E POWER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS; CORE ELEMENTS; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GATE DRIVERS; HIGH-VOLTAGE DRIVERS; HIGH-VOLTAGES; IMPLANTED DEVICE; IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICES; POWER MANAGEMENTS; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; SIMULATED RESULTS; SPHERICAL TRANSDUCERS; SWITCHING LOSS; TRANSFER ENERGY; ULTRASOUND ENERGY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; ULTRASONICS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84866613767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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