Language
English
Publication Date
11-1-2024
Journal
IEEE: Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC)
DOI
10.1109/jssc.2024.3464533
PMID
39830594
PMCID
PMC11736903
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
11-1-2025
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Author MSS
Abstract
Miniature bioelectronic implants promise revolutionary therapies for cardiovascular and neurological disorders. Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a significant method for miniaturization, eliminating the need for bulky batteries in today’s devices. Despite successful demonstrations of millimetric battery-free implants in animal models, the robustness and efficiency of WPT are known to degrade significantly under misalignment incurred by body movements, respiration, heart beating, and limited control of implant orientation during surgery. This paper presents an omnidirectional WPT platform for millimetric bioelectronic implants, employing the emerging magnetoelectric (ME) WPT modality, and “magnetic field steering” technique based on multiple transmitter (TX) coils. To accurately sense the weak coupling in a miniature implant and adaptively control the multi-coil TX array in a closed loop, we develop an Active Echo (AE) scheme using a tiny coil on the implant. Our prototype comprises a fully integrated 14.2mm3 implantable stimulator embedding a custom low-power System-on-Chip (SoC) powered by an ME film, a transmitter with a custom three-channel AE RX chip, and a multi-coil TX array with mutual inductance cancellation. The AE RX achieves −161dBm/Hz input-referred noise with 64dB gain tuning range to reliably sense the AE signal, and offers fast polarity detection for driver control. AE simultaneously enhances the robustness, efficiency, and charging range of ME WPT. Under 90° rotation from the ideal position, our omnidirectional WPT system achieves 6.8× higher power transfer efficiency (PTE) than a single-coil baseline. The tracking error of AE negligibly degrades the PTE by less than 2% from using ideal control.
Keywords
wireless power transfer (WPT), omnidirectional, bioelectronics, implantable device, magnetoelectric (ME)
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Wang, Wei; Yu, Zhanghao; Zou, Yiwei; et al., "Omnidirectional Wireless Power Transfer for Millimetric Magnetoelectric Biomedical Implants" (2024). Faculty, Staff and Students Publications. 6290.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/baylor_docs/6290