Title :
A 1.12mW Continuous Healthcare Monitor Chip Integrated on a Planar Fashionable Circuit Board
Author :
Kim, Hyejung ; Kim, Yongsang ; Kwon, Young-Se ; Yoo, Hoi-Jun
Author_Institution :
KAIST, Daejeon
Abstract :
A planar thin-film technology is applied directly on the fabric to fabricate a planar fashionable circuit board (P-FCB) and to introduce a direct chip-integration technique on a P-FCB. Planar technology, which has helped make the current advance of electronics technology possible, is used to fabricate P-FCBs. Planar capacitor humidity sensors, a low-power controller chip and LEDs are integrated on a P-FCB for continuous healthcare monitoring applications. The P-FCB has the same electrical and mechanical properties as the clothes and also shows a graceful degradation in performance, exactly the same way as clothes do with time and usage.
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; biomedical measurement; capacitive sensors; chip scale packaging; fabrics; health care; humidity sensors; low-power electronics; microcontrollers; patient monitoring; thin film circuits; thin film sensors; LED; P-FCB; continuous healthcare monitor chip; direct chip-integration technique; fabric; low-power controller chip; planar capacitor humidity sensors; planar fashionable circuit board; planar thin-film technology; power 1.12 mW; Capacitive sensors; Capacitors; Fabrics; Humidity; Integrated circuit technology; Mechanical sensors; Medical services; Monitoring; Printed circuits; Thin film circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2010-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2011-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523101
