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Wireless Power Transfer for Medical Microsystems

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A successful systematic design is extremely important for wireless power transfer. It helps to clarify the features that are the most important and that can be given up. It also helps to develop antennas and circuits techniques for the system. In this chapter, we focus on the system level design of the wireless power transfer for biomedical applications. Although biomedical applications may be variable, we try to model, extract, and discuss the common features for their power transfers. First, the basic working principle of the inductive coupling is briefly depicted. Second, a unified systematic model is proposed for the transfers. Three types of the system components, including the power antennas, the power converters, and the power management are to be described. Third, typical challenges in the systematic design are to be summed up. The most challenging part is to trade off among various characteristics. At last, the electromagnetic exposure to human body is discussed, which is a necessary consideration in the systematic design.

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Sun, T., Xie, X., Wang, Z. (2013). Systematic Designs. In: Wireless Power Transfer for Medical Microsystems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7702-0_2

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