Stephen O'Driscoll
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis

office: Kemper Engineering Building (Engineering II) Room 2039 (map)
postal: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-5294
phone: 530-754-0435             fax: 530-752-8428
email: odriscoll@ucdavis.edu   url: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~odriscoll/

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Wireless Power Transfer


In-vivo monitoring and treatment of key biological parameters can greatly assist in managing health and preventing disease. Implantable medical devices are increasingly an essential healthcare tool. Powering these devices by means of batteries or inductive coupling limits the range of possible devices to geometricaly large devices placed just below the surface of the skin. Our work has enabled deeper implantation depth and smaller (x100) device size by developing a new wireless power transfer regime. Currently we are extending this technology to enable even greater implant depths, integrating the receiving antenna on-chip to deliver more robust devices, and developing technology for distributed implanted devices.

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Research:
› Biomedical Electronics
  › Wireless Power Transfer
  › IPS
  › Neural Interfaces
  › Smart Pill
› Analog Design Automation
  › Analog Optimization
  › Genetic Analog

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