The future of neuroscience: flexible and wireless implantable neural electronics

E McGlynn, V Nabaei, E Ren… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological diseases are a prevalent cause of global mortality and are of growing concern
when considering an ageing global population. Traditional treatments are accompanied by …

Enhancing ultrasound power transfer: Efficiency, acoustics, and future directions

Y Zheng, Z Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Pan, X Yan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Implantable medical devices (IMDs), like pacemakers regulating heart rhythm or deep brain
stimulators treating neurological disorders, revolutionize healthcare. However, limited …

High shear rate propulsion of acoustic microrobots in complex biological fluids

A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch, U Bozuyuk… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Untethered microrobots offer a great promise for localized targeted therapy in hard-to-
access spaces in our body. Despite recent advancements, most microrobot propulsion …

Imaging-guided bioresorbable acoustic hydrogel microrobots

H Han, X Ma, W Deng, J Zhang, S Tang, OS Pak… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Micro-and nanorobots excel in navigating the intricate and often inaccessible areas of the
human body, offering immense potential for applications such as disease diagnosis …

A miniaturized single-transducer implantable pressure sensor with time-multiplexed ultrasonic data and power links

MJ Weber, Y Yoshihara, A Sawaby… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-precision implantable pressure sensor with ultrasonic power-up and data uplink is
presented. The fully packaged implant measures 1.7× 2.3× 7.8 mm 3 and includes a custom …

Enabling deep-tissue networking for miniature medical devices

Y Ma, Z Luo, C Steiger, G Traverso, F Adib - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present IVN (In-Vivo Networking), a system that enables powering up and
communicating with miniature sensors implanted or injected in deep tissues. IVN overcomes …

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 …

Towards flexible wireless charging for medical implants using distributed antenna system

X Fan, L Shangguan, R Howard, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of In-N-Out, a software-
hardware solution for far-field wireless power transfer. In-N-Out can continuously charge a …

A review of power management integrated circuits for ultrasound-based energy harvesting in implantable medical devices

A Ballo, M Bottaro, AD Grasso - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper aims to review the recent architectures of power management units for
ultrasound-based energy harvesting, while focusing on battery-less implantable medical …

Ceramic packaging in neural implants

K Shen, MM Maharbiz - Journal of neural engineering, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The lifetime of neural implants is strongly dependent on packaging due to the aqueous and
biochemically aggressive nature of the body. Over the last decade, there has been a drive …