kth.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Low-Temperature Fabrication of Millimeter-Scale MEMS-Based Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Energy Harvesters for Medical Implants
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems.ORCID iD: 0009-0003-4252-9973
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9552-4234
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems. Karolinska University Hospital, MedTechLabs, Bioclinicum, Solna, Sweden, 171 64.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7147-6730
2024 (English)In: Journal of microelectromechanical systems, ISSN 1057-7157, E-ISSN 1941-0158, Vol. 33, no 5, p. 524-531Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

MEMS-based piezoelectric ultrasonic energy harvesters (PUEH) have become one of the most promising options for replacing or transferring energy to batteries in medical implants, where device miniaturization and power optimization are needed. Among the most commonly used piezoelectric materials in PUEH, lead zirconate titanate (PZT) is widely acknowledged for its excellent piezoelectric properties, good stability, and low cost. However, the performance of PZT degrades when the processing temperature approaches and exceeds half of its Curie temperature Tc, limiting its application. Here, we demonstrate a highly miniaturized, low-temperature fabricated MEMS-based PUEH with an effective ultrasound harvesting area of 0.79 mm2 and an effective device volume of 0.35 mm3. The low-temperature adhesive epoxy bonding ensures the temperature throughout the entire fabrication process remains below 85°C, which preserves the properties of the integrated piezoelectric material to the greatest extent. This allows the use of bulk PZT-5H, a material that possesses superior piezoelectric properties, but has a relatively low Tc, to enhance device performance. Our device outputs a root-mean-square (RMS) voltage of 0.62 V and an RMS power of 0.19 mW on a 2 kΩ resistive load at an optimum operating frequency of 200 kHz, with a reception distance of 20 mm in water and input acoustic power intensity of 178 mW/cm2. The proposed design and fabrication technique enable our device to achieve the smallest effective size among the reported MEMS-based PUEH while still being capable of powering up numerous implantable medical devices and being compatible with various commercially available power management units. [2024-0081]

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024. Vol. 33, no 5, p. 524-531
Keywords [en]
Energy harvesting, medical implant, piezoelectricity, ultrasonic transducer
National Category
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-355419DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2024.3418580ISI: 001271968900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85206842684OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-355419DiVA, id: diva2:1909163
Note

QC 20241101

Available from: 2024-10-30 Created: 2024-10-30 Last updated: 2024-11-01Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Tian, XuStemme, GöranRoxhed, Niclas

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Tian, XuIordanidis, Theocharis NikiforosStemme, GöranRoxhed, Niclas
By organisation
Micro and Nanosystems
In the same journal
Journal of microelectromechanical systems
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 77 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf