A mm-Sized Implantable Medical Device (IMD) With Ultrasonic Power Transfer and a Hybrid Bi-Directional Data Link

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1741-1753

  Charthad, Jayant ^a   Weber, Marcus J ^a   Chang, Ting Chia ^a   Arbabian, Amin ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AC DC converter; active rectifier; antennas; bi directional data communication; CMOS; IMD; implantable biomedical devices; mm sized implants; piezoelectric receivers; radio transmitters; ultrasonic power transfer

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BALLOONS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DIAGNOSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PIEZOELECTRICITY; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); ULTRASONICS;

AC-DC CONVERTERS; ACTIVE RECTIFIERS; BI-DIRECTIONAL DATA COMMUNICATION; IMD; IMPLANTABLE BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC RECEIVERS; ULTRASONIC POWER;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 85027950263     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2015.2427336     Document Type: Article

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