title: A high-power versatile wireless power transfer for biomedical implants.
abstract: Implantable biomedical actuators are highly desired in modern medicine. However, how to power up these biomedical implants remains a challenge since most of them need more than several hundreds mW of power. The air-core based radio-frequency transformer (two face-to-face inductive coils) has been the only non-toxic and non-invasive power source for implants for the last three decades [1]. For various technical constraints, the maximum delivered power is limited by this approach. The highest delivered power reported is 275 mW over 1 cm distance [2]. Also, the delivered power is highly vulnerable to the coils' geometrical arrangement and the electrical property of the medium around them. In this paper, a novel rotating-magnets based wireless power transfer that can deliver ∼10 W over 1 cm is demonstrated. The delivered power is significantly higher than the existing start-of-art. Further, the new method is versatile since there is no need to have the impedance matching networks that are highly susceptible to the operating frequency, the coil arrangement and the environment.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, California, USA. jianghao@sfsu.edu
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Jun Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Shy Shenq
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Liou
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fechter
authors.forename: Shinjiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Shuvo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019736:Prostheses and Implants