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Record W4409664776 · doi:10.1038/s41378-025-00902-w

Wireless ultrasonic power transfer using a pre-charged CMUT structure with a built-in charge storage capacitor

2025· article· en· W4409664776 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMicrosystems & Nanoengineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicWireless Power Transfer Systems
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNovo Nordisk FondenQueen's UniversityDivision of Electrical, Communications and Cyber SystemsUniversity of GalwayNorth Carolina State UniversityNational Science Foundation
KeywordsCapacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducersUltrasonic sensorMiniaturizationElectrical engineeringMaterials scienceCapacitive sensingOptoelectronicsElectrodeCapacitorDC biasVoltageAcousticsEngineeringPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) technology is a potential candidate to implement an ultrasonic power receiver for implantable medical devices (IMDs) because CMUT technology employs photolithography-based microfabrication techniques amenable to miniaturization, integration with electronics, and biocompatibility. Pre-charged CMUTs operating in constant-charge mode eliminate the DC bias and this mode of operation is more suitable for ultrasound power transfer to IMDs. We designed and fabricated a novel pre-charged CMUT structure with a built-in charge storage capacitor. This new configuration features a floating electrode between the upper and lower electrodes. Charges are stored on this floating electrode prior to implantation by directly bringing the floating electrode into contact with the bottom electrode while applying a DC bias between the top and bottom electrodes of the CMUT. After pre-charging the CMUT, the charges are retained without any leakage, as confirmed by occasional measurements over the course of about two years. We have also demonstrated that this device allows operation without a DC bias and can be used as a power receiver in an IMD. In the presented design, the CMUT can be pre-charged at a desired precise charge level. The amount of trapped charge can be controlled by holding the floating electrode in contact with the bottom electrode by applying external ultrasound pressure and simultaneously maintaining a DC bias. The maximum received power was 10.1 mW, corresponding to a received power density of 3.1 mW/mm 2 , with a 14.5% efficiency. We have achieved an acoustic-to-electrical power conversion efficiency as high as 29.7% at lower input power levels.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.233
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it