Research highlights for a broader audience
2014 Highlights
Wireless microimplants
Our work on wirelessly powered microimplants originally appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Stanford engineer invents safe way to transfer energy to medical chips in the body
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Wireless Medical Implant Is Smaller Than a Grain of Rice
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Wireless power breakthrough allows for ‘electroceuticals’
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Stanford researchers develop tiny wireless implant
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Wireless pacemaker placed in rabbit
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Stanford Engineers’ Electrifying Breakthrough
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Wirelessly Powering Medical Chips Inside Your Body
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No Batteries Here: New Implants Can Charge Through Your Body’s Own Tissue
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Wireless power for tiny medical implants
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New wireless technology could help patients with medical implants
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2013 Highlights
Midfield wireless powering
Our theoretical work on midfield wireless power transfer originally appeared in Physical Review Letters.
Focus: Wireless Power for Tiny Medical Devices
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Wireless Power Transfer Using Small Coils May Be Possible
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2012 Highlights
Wireless powering for a cardiac implant
Our computational work on wireless power transfer to a cardiac implant originally appeared in Applied Physics Letters.
Stanford researchers create tiny, wirelessly powered cardiac device
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A millimeter-scale, wirelessly powered cardiac device
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Locomotive devices
Our work on implants capable of locomotion originally appeared in ISSCC.
Fantastic voyage: Space age devices
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Blueprint: A Mini Sub That Could Steer Through The Body
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Scientists Working On Device To Travel Through Bloodstream
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Chip moves wirelessly in bloodstream
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“Fantastic Voyage”-inspired Chip Is Made To Move
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Moving implant, body nets advance at ISSCC
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Swimming through the blood stream: Stanford engineers create wireless, self-propelled medical device
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