Yu Zhanghao, Chen Joshua C, He Yan, Alrashdan Fatima T, Avants Benjamin W, Singer Amanda, Robinson Jacob T, Yang Kaiyuan
Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
IEEE J Solid-State Circuits. 2022 Mar;57(3):818-830. doi: 10.1109/jssc.2021.3129993. Epub 2021 Dec 8.
This paper presents a hardware platform including stimulating implants wirelessly powered and controlled by a shared transmitter for coordinated leadless multisite stimulation. The adopted novel single-transmitter, multiple-implant structure can flexibly deploy stimuli, improve system efficiency, easily scale stimulating channel quantity and relieve efforts in device synchronization. In the proposed system, a wireless link leveraging magnetoelectric effects is co-designed with a robust and efficient system-on-chip to enable reliable operation and individual programming of every implant. Each implant integrates a 0.8-mm chip, a 6-mm magnetoelectric film, and an energy storage capacitor within a 6.2-mm size. Magnetoelectric power transfer is capable of safely transmitting milliwatt power to devices placed several centimeters away from the transmitter coil, maintaining good efficiency with size constraints and tolerating 60-degree, 1.5-cm misalignment in angular and lateral movement. The SoC robustly operates with 2-V source amplitude variations that spans a 40-mm transmitter-implant distance change, realizes individual addressability through physical unclonable function IDs, and achieves 90% efficiency for 1.5-to-3.5-V stimulation with fully programmable stimulation parameters.
IEEE J Solid-State Circuits. 2022-3
IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2020-12
J Neural Eng. 2021-7-26
IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech. 2023-5
Acc Chem Res. 2024-10-15
Acc Chem Res. 2024-5-7
IEEE Microw Wirel Technol Lett. 2023-3
IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2024-12
IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2022-8
IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2024-4
Sci Rep. 2025-7-30
IEEE J Solid-State Circuits. 2024-11
Nat Nanotechnol. 2025-1
Acc Chem Res. 2024-10-15
IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech. 2023-5
bioRxiv. 2023-12-25
Sensors (Basel). 2023-9-26
IEEE Microw Wirel Technol Lett. 2023-3
Elife. 2021-7-30
Adv Healthc Mater. 2021-9
IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2020-12
IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2020-12
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020-1-23