A biosafety comparison between capacitive and inductive coupling in biomedical implants

Ahmed Ibrahim Saleem Al-Kalbani; Mehmet Yuce; Jean-Michel Redoute

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2014.2328375

A biosafety comparison between capacitive and inductive coupling in biomedical implants

Ahmed Ibrahim Saleem Al-Kalbani, Mehmet Yuce, Jean-Michel Redoute

Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

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Abstract

This letter investigates the link efficiencies and ensuing biohazards when capacitive versus inductive coupling is used to power biomedical implants electromagnetically. Electromagnetic simulations illustrate that the power link efficiency of capacitive coupling decays slower as a function of the distance between plates compared to inductive coupling. Specifically, the case designs show that, using a transmitted power of 1 W at 5 MHz, capacitive coupling produces a 10-g averaged SAR value of 1.63 W/kg compared to 2.39 W/kg for an inductive coupling of the same dimension.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1168-1171
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2014.2328375
Publication status	Published - 2014

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