On the design of microfluidic implant coil for flexible telemetry system

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1074-1080

  Qusba, Amit ^a   Ramrakhyani, Anil Kumar ^b   So, Ju Hee ^a   Hayes, Gerard J ^a   Dickey, Michael D ^a   Lazzi, Gianluca ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

EGaIn antenna; flexible electronics; flexible inductive coil; liquid metal antenna; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); power transfer efficiency; retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

EGAIN ANTENNAS; INDUCTIVE COILS; LIQUID METAL ANTENNAS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; POWER TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; RETINAL PROSTHESIS;

ANTENNAS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COPPER; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GOLD; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); INDIUM ALLOYS; SILICONES; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT;

LIQUID METALS;

EID: 84896812466     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2293096     Document Type: Article

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