Title
An RF-Ultrasound Relay for Powering Deep Implants Across Air-Tissue Interfaces with a Multi-Output Regulating Rectifier and Ultrasound Beamforming
Abstract
Single modality wireless power has limited depth for mm-sized implants across air-tissue (e.g. retina implants) or skull-tissue interfaces because of high loss in tissue (RF, optical) or high reflection at the medium interface (ultrasound). The proposed RF-ultrasound (US) relay uses an RF link across the interface to a relay chip which rectifies the RF power and transmits focused ultrasound to the implant using a 6-channel phased array with 251% efficiency improvement at 2.5 cm over fixed focusing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492509
2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
ultrasound beamforming,skull-tissue interfaces,RF link,relay chip,RF-ultrasound relay,deep implants,air-tissue interfaces,rectifier,single modality wireless power
Conference
2158-5601
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-4766-9
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ernest So141.47
Pyungwoo Yeon221.03
E. J. Chichilnisky320.69
amin arbabian422735.52