Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/LAPC.2012.6402975
