A review of acoustic power transfer for bio-medical implants

H Basaeri, DB Christensen… - Smart Materials and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Bio-implantable devices have been used to perform therapeutic functions such as drug
delivery or diagnostic monitoring of physiological parameters. Proper operation of these …

Enhancing ultrasound power transfer: Efficiency, acoustics, and future directions

Y Zheng, Z Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Pan, X Yan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Implantable medical devices (IMDs), like pacemakers regulating heart rhythm or deep brain
stimulators treating neurological disorders, revolutionize healthcare. However, limited …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustic holograms in contactless ultrasonic power transfer systems: Modeling and experiment

M Bakhtiari-Nejad, A Elnahhas, MR Hajj… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Contactless ultrasonic acoustic energy transfer (UAET) is a new technology that eliminates
risks or impracticalities associated with wired electrical connections or batteries that need to …

Coupling of experimentally validated electroelastic dynamics and mixing rules formulation for macro-fiber composite piezoelectric structures

S Shahab, A Erturk - Journal of Intelligent Material Systems …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Piezoelectric structures have been used in a variety of applications ranging from vibration
control and sensing to morphing and energy harvesting. In order to employ the effective 33 …

Flexible piezoelectric energy harvesting from mouse click motions

Y Cha, J Hong, J Lee, JM Park, K Kim - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we study energy harvesting from the mouse click motions of a robot finger and
a human index finger using a piezoelectric material. The feasibility of energy harvesting from …

Focused ultrasound actuation of shape memory polymers; acoustic-thermoelastic modeling and testing

A Bhargava, K Peng, J Stieg, R Mirzaeifar, S Shahab - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Controlled drug delivery (CDD) technologies have received extensive attention recently.
Despite recent efforts, drug releasing systems still face major challenges in practice …

[HTML][HTML] Electroelastodynamics of flexoelectric energy conversion and harvesting in elastic dielectrics

AG Moura, A Erturk - Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Flexoelectricity is the generation of electric polarization by the application of a non-uniform
mechanical strain field, ie, a strain gradient. This phenomenon is exhibited by all elastic …

3-D underwater acoustic wave focusing by periodic structure

Y Ruan, X Liang, Z Wang, T Wang, Y Deng… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
By assembling the square lattice arrays of “+” shaped steel rods, an underwater acoustic
composite lens consisting of a convex lens and a slab lens is proposed to achieve the …

State‐of‐the‐Art Developments of Acoustic Energy Transfer

MR Awal, M Jusoh, T Sabapathy… - … Journal of Antennas …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic energy transfer (AET) technology has drawn significant industrial attention recently.
This paper presents the reviews of the existing AETs sequentially, preferably, from the early …

Dynamics of acoustic impedance matching layers in contactless ultrasonic power transfer systems

M Bakhtiari-Nejad, MR Hajj… - Smart Materials and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The acoustic impedance mismatch between transducer materials and medium in ultrasonic
power transfer systems narrows the transduction bandwidth and causes losses through the …