3D small antenna for energy harvesting applications on implantable micro-devices

Author

Anacleto, P. ; Mendes, P.M. ; Gultepe, E. ; Gracias, D.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Electron., Univ. of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

12-13 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper reports a 3D small micro-antenna suitable for energy harvesting applications in the low gigahertz regime to supply 1μW power to small, implantable medical device. The micro antenna is designed to envelope a 500 × 500 × 500 μm³ implantable device and simulated as embedded in 5 × 5 × 5 mm³ of muscle tissue. The proposed antenna was fabricated by combining planar photolithography and surface tension driven self-folding techniques in order to achieve the desired 3D profile.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; energy harvesting; muscle; photolithography; planar antennas; prosthetics; surface tension; 3D small microantenna; embedded muscle tissue; energy harvesting application; implantable medical microdevice; planar photolithography; power 1 muW; surface tension driven self-folding technique; Antennas; Energy harvesting; Humans; Monitoring; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; implantable device; micro antenna; self-folding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2012 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2218-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2219-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2012.6402975

Filename

6402975