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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. 

Wirelessly powered neural stimulation and recording system is crucially important for the long-term study of the animal behaviors for the treatment of chronic neuropathic diseases. Headstage based neural implant is one of the popular methods to stimulate the neurons. In this work, a homecage based wireless power transfer (WPT) system is developed to supply power to a 3-D printed headstage which consists of a receiver (RX) coil, a rectifier and a light-emitting diode (LED) for optogenetic stimulation. A multilayer transmitter (TX) coil is designed to provide power over the 28.5 cm × 18 cm homecage area. The proposed system is able to achieve a maximum of 41.7% efficiency at 5 cm distance through air media using less number of headstage resonators compared to the other state-of-the art works.