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Title: A Miniaturized Highly Efficient Headstage Based Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) System for Optogenetic Stimulation of Freely Moving Animals
For the treatment of chronic neuropathic diseases, long-term behavior study of the patient is very important. The behavior study is performed using neural stimulation and simultaneously recording the response from the neural cells. Headstage-based neuromodulation device has become one of the popular methods for neural stimulation in recent times. In this work, a wirelessly powered system is presented that provides constant power to a headstage based optogenetic stimulator, which includes a receiver (RX) coil, a rectifier, and an mm-sized light-emitting-diode (LED). A multi-layered transmitter (TX) coil is designed to provide uniform power transmission over the 20.7 cm × 14 cm mouse behavioral cage area. A maximum of ~49% efficiency is achieved using the proposed system at 3 cm distance through the air media at 13.56 MHz operating frequency. The proposed system uses less number of headstage resonators on the 3-D printed light-weight headstage which is able to achieve higher efficiency compared to the other state-of-the-art.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1943990
NSF-PAR ID:
10314079
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2020 IEEE 14th Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS)
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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