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A Low Power On-Chip Class-E Power Amplifier For Remotely Powered Implantable Sensor Systems

Ture, Kerim
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Kilinc, Enver G.
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Dehollain, Catherine  
Vandendriesche, S
2015
Bio-Mems And Medical Microdevices Ii
Conference on Bio-MEMS and Medical Microdevices II

This paper presents a low power fully integrated class-E power amplifier and its integration with remotely powered sensor system. The class-E power amplifier is suitable solution for low-power applications due to its high power efficiency. However, the required high inductance values which make the on-chip integration of the power amplifier difficult. The designed power amplifier is fully integrated in the remotely powered sensor system and fabricated in 0.18 mu m CMOS process. The power is transferred to the implantable sensor system at 13.56 MHz by using an inductively coupled remote powering link. The induced AC voltage on the implant coil is converted into a DC voltage by a passive full-wave rectifier. A voltage regulator is used to suppress the ripples and create a clean and stable 1.8 V supply voltage for the sensor and communication blocks. The data collected from the sensors is transmitted by on-off keying modulated low-power transmitter at 1.2 GHz frequency. The transmitter is composed of a LC tank oscillator and a fully on-chip class-E power amplifier. An additional output network is used for the power amplifier which makes the integration of the power amplifier fully on-chip. The integrated power amplifier with 0.2 V supply voltage has a drain efficiency of 31.5% at -10 dBm output power for 50 Omega load. The measurement results verify the functionality of the power amplifier and the remotely powered implantable sensor system. The data communication is also verified by using a commercial 50 Omega chip antenna and has 600 kbps data rate at 1 m communication distance.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2178632
Web of Science ID

WOS:000360229400003

Author(s)
Ture, Kerim
Kilinc, Enver G.
Dehollain, Catherine  
Editors
Vandendriesche, S
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Bio-Mems And Medical Microdevices Ii
ISBN of the book

978-1-62841-641-1

Total of pages

7

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

9518

Start page

951805

Subjects

Fully integrated power amplifier

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power amplifier

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class-E

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remote powering

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wireless power transfer

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biomedical implant

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remotely powered sensor systems

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implantable electronics

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Conference on Bio-MEMS and Medical Microdevices II

Barcelona, SPAIN

MAY 05-06, 2015

Available on Infoscience
September 28, 2015
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