Titre:
On-Chip RF Power Harvesting for Biomedical Implantable Wireless Sensors
Conférencier:
Khaled Nabil Salama ,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Lieu:
Polytechnique Montréal, Pavillon Lassonde, L-2712 ,
Date et heure:
mardi le 14 août 2018 de
10:30 à 12:30
Résumé: Wireless powering enabled enormous applications by removing the last physical connection needed to supply power to wireless systems. So, it enabled a key platform for battery-less, biomedical implantable devices that can be implanted once with no need for further surgeries to replace the sensor or its battery. RFID applications are the most common systems utilizing wireless powering. An On-Chip RF Energy Harvesting module is proposed to deliver power to wireless sensors from incoming RF signals.The proposed RF energy harvesting module includes highly efficient RF rectifier, DC voltage limiter, voltage sensors to enable power management, low dropout regulator (LDO) to provide clean power rail for on-chip transmitter. The design is optimized for sensors implanted inside the eye to wirelessly monitor the intraocular pressure of glaucoma patients. The chip has been designed and fabricated in a standard 0.18μm CMOS technology. To emulate the eye environment in measurements, a custom test setup is developed that comprises Plexiglass cavities filled with saline solution. Measurements in this setup show that the proposed chip can be charged to 1V wirelessly from a 5-W transmitter 3 cm away from the harvester chip. The energy that is stored on the 5-nF on-chip MOSCAP when charged to 1 V is 2.5 nJ. Applications to monitoring of other neurodegenerative diseases will also be presented.
Note biographique: Dr. Khaled Salama received his bachelor's degree with honors from the Electronics and Communications Department at Cairo University in Egypt in 1997, and his master's and doctorate degrees from the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University, in 2000 and 2005 respectively. He was an assistant professor at RPI between 2005 and 2009. He joined King Abdullah University of science and technology (KAUST) in January 2009 and was the electrical engineering founding program chair till August 2011. His work on CMOS sensors for molecular detection has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), awarded the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators Challenge Award in biological sciences and was acquired by Lumina Inc in 2008. He is the cofounder of Ultrawave Labs, a VC funded biomedical imaging company. He is the co-author of 200 papers and 18 US patents on low-power mixed-signal circuits for intelligent fully integrated sensors and nonlinear electronics especially memristor devices. He is a senior member of IEEE.