Powering solutions for biomedical sensors and implants inside the human body: A comprehensive review on energy harvesting units, energy storage, and wireless …

S Roy, ANMW Azad, S Baidya… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For implantable medical devices, it is of paramount importance to ensure uninterrupted
energy supply to different circuits and subcircuits. Instead of relying on battery stored energy …

Cochlear implant

JG Naples, MJ Ruckenstein - Otolaryngologic Clinics of North …, 2020 - oto.theclinics.com
It is impossible to overstate the medical and societal impact of cochlear implant (CI). The
introduction of this device allowed otolaryngologists to restore auditory input in deafened …

Enabling practical backscatter communication for on-body sensors

P Zhang, M Rostami, P Hu, D Ganesan - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we look at making backscatter practical for ultra-low power on-body sensors by
leveraging radios on existing smartphones and wearables (eg WiFi and Bluetooth). The …

A mm-sized wireless implantable device for electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves

J Charthad, TC Chang, Z Liu, A Sawaby… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wireless electrical stimulation implant for peripheral nerves, achieving> 10× improvement
over state of the art in the depth/volume figure of merit, is presented. The fully integrated …

A review of implant communication technology in WBAN: Progress and challenges

AK Teshome, B Kibret, DTH Lai - IEEE reviews in biomedical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past six decades, there has been tremendous progress made in the field of medical
implant communications. A comprehensive review of the progress, current state of the art …

Fully integrated inductor-less flipping-capacitor rectifier for piezoelectric energy harvesting

Z Chen, MK Law, PI Mak, WH Ki… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully integrated piezoelectric energy harvesting interface without
external components. Instead of relying on bulky external inductors with high quality factor …

Ultrasound‐powered implants: a critical review of piezoelectric material selection and applications

BL Turner, S Senevirathne, K Kilgour… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrasound‐powered implants (UPIs) represent cutting edge power sources for implantable
medical devices (IMDs), as their powering strategy allows for extended functional lifetime …

Low-voltage OTA–C filter with an area-and power-efficient OTA for biosignal sensor applications

SY Lee, CP Wang, YS Chu - IEEE transactions on biomedical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a systematic method for decreasing the amount of transconductors used
by an operational transconductance amplifier-capacitor (OTA-C) filter to decrease the power …

NURIP: Neural interface processor for brain-state classification and programmable-waveform neurostimulation

G O'Leary, DM Groppe, TA Valiante… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advancement of implantable medical devices for the treatment of neurological disorders
demands energy-efficient, low-latency processors for responsive, safe, and personalized …

A 0.5 V 55 64 2 Channel Binaural Silicon Cochlea for Event-Driven Stereo-Audio Sensing

M Yang, CH Chien, T Delbruck… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 64× 2 channel stereo-audio sensing front end with parallel
asynchronous event output inspired by the biological cochlea. Each binaural channel …