A review on antenna technologies for ambient RF energy harvesting and wireless power transfer: Designs, challenges and applications

MA Ullah, R Keshavarz, M Abolhasan, J Lipman… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH) and wireless power transmission (WPT) are two
emerging alternative energy technologies that have the potential to offer wireless energy …

The potentials, challenges, and future directions of on-chip-antennas for emerging wireless applications—A comprehensive survey

R Karim, A Iftikhar, B Ijaz, IB Mabrouk - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-growing demand for low power, high performance, cost-effective, low-profile, and
highly integrated wireless systems for emerging applications has triggered the need for the …

Magnetoelectric materials for miniature, wireless neural stimulation at therapeutic frequencies

A Singer, S Dutta, E Lewis, Z Chen, JC Chen, N Verma… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
A major challenge for miniature bioelectronics is wireless power delivery deep inside the
body. Electromagnetic or ultrasound waves suffer from absorption and impedance …

Wireless power transfer antenna alignment using intermodulation for two-tone powered implantable medical devices

H Zhang, SP Gao, T Ngo, W Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless power transfer (WPT) to the implantable medical devices (IMDs) often suffers from
antenna radiation direction and polarization misalignments, which degrades the wireless …

A novel RF-powered wireless pacing via a rectenna-based pacemaker and a wearable transmit-antenna array

SM Asif, A Iftikhar, JW Hansen, MS Khan… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The management of heart failure patients via the implantation of cardiac pacemakers has
become a well-known therapy. However, the complications associated with traditional …

A wireless data transfer by using a patch antenna for biomedical applications

GS Byun - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a 20 GHz wireless data transfer (WDT) interface for implantable applications is
proposed. The proposed WDT utilizes a small-form factor off-chip antenna to transfer data …

Practical waveform-to-energy harvesting model and transmit waveform optimization for RF wireless power transfer systems

N Ayir, T Riihonen, M Heino - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The received radio-frequency (RF) power in far-field RF wireless power transfer (WPT)—with
or without simultaneous information transfer—is minuscule due to large propagation loss in …

Endovascular delivery of leads and stentrodes and their applications to deep brain stimulation and neuromodulation: a review

G Rajah, H Saber, R Singh, L Rangel-Castilla - Neurosurgical focus, 2018 - thejns.org
Neuromodulation and deep brain stimulation (DBS) have been increasingly used in many
neurological ailments, including essential tremor, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and more …

A 434 MHz dual-mode power harvesting system with an on-chip coil in 180 nm CMOS SOI for mm-sized implants

H Rahmani, A Babakhani - 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a mm-sized dual-mode power harvesting system for biomedical
implants that can adaptively set the power delivery mode depending on the received RF …

A 3 pJ/bit free space optical interlink platform for self-powered tetherless sensing and opto-spintronic RF-to-optical transduction

S Wheaton, V Lopez-Dominguez, H Almasi, J Cai… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Tetherless sensors have long been positioned to enable next generation applications in
biomedical, environmental, and industrial sectors. The main challenge in enabling these …