RF energy harvesting system for wireless intraocular pressure monitoring

This paper presents an RF energy harvesting system for wireless intraocular pressure monitoring applications.The system consists of an implantable antenna and a rectifier.A new sizing strategy is adopted to optimize the conversion efficiency of the rectifier,and the design principle of an implantable antenna is introduced from material selection and structure design.Results from testing demonstrate that the antenna gain is about-20 dBi and the rectifier's maximum total conversion efficiency which contains match efficiency and rectifying efficiency is 47.18%under the implementation of0.18μm standard CMOS process.The maximum power obtained from the proposed system is 8μW when the power density of electromagnetic wave is lower than the national standard 40μW/cm^2 at915 MHz,which is enough to power the intraocular pressure monitoring system.

A linear 180 nm SOI CMOS antenna switch module using integrated passive device filters for cellular applications

A broadband monolithic linear single pole, eight throw （SP8T） switch has been fabricated in 180 nm thin film silicon-on-insulator （SOI） CMOS technology with a quad-band GSM harmonic filter in integrated passive devices （IPD） technology, which is developed for cellular applications. The antenna switch module （ASM） features 1.2 dB insertion loss with filter on 2G bands and 0.4 dB insertion loss in 3G bands, less than -45 dB isolation and maximum -103 dB intermodulation distortion for mobile front ends by applying distributed architecture and adaptive supply voltage generator.

A high-linearity InGaP/GaAs HBT power amplifier for IEEE 802.11a/n

A three-stage 4.8-6 GHz monolithic power amplifier（PA） compatible with IEEE 802.11a/n designed based on an advanced 2μm InGaP/GaAs hetero-junction bipolar transistor（HBT） process is presented.The PA integrates input matching and closed-loop power control circuits on chip.Under 3.3 V DC bias,the amplifier achieves a ~31 dB small signal gain,excellent wide band input and output matching among overall 1.2 GHz bandwidth,and up to 24.5 dBm linear output power below EVM 3%with IEEE 802.11a 64QAM OFDM input signal.

An ultralow power wireless intraocular pressure monitoring system

This paper describes an ultralow power wireless intraocular pressure （IOP） monitoring system that is dedicated to sensing and transferring intraocular pressure of glaucoma patients. Our system is comprised of a capac- itive pressure sensor, an application-specific integrated circuit, which is designed on the SMIC 180 nm process, and a dipole antenna. The system is wirelessly powered and demonstrates a power consumption of 7.56 μW at 1.24 V during continuous monitoring, a significant reduction in active power dissipation compared to existing work. The input RF sensitivity is -13 dBm. A significant reduction in input RF sensitivity results from the reduction of mis- match time of the ASK modulation caused by FM0 encoding. The system exhibits an average error of-4- 1.5 mmHg in measured pressure. Finally, a complete IOP system is demonstrated in the real biological environment, showing a successful reading of the pressure of an eye.