Stretchable Planar Antenna Modulated by Integrated Circuit (SPAMIC) for the Near Field Communication (NFC) of Epidermal Electrophysiological Sensors (EEPS)

ECCS——道具吗。No. 15097671-提案题目：用于表皮电生理传感器（EEPS）近场通信（NFC）的集成电路调制的可拉伸平面天线（SPAMIC） 2-项目简介：研究和实现用于表皮电生理传感器近场通信的集成电路调制的可拉伸平面天线。摘要：表皮电生理传感器（Epidermal electrophysiological sensor， EEPS）是一类安装在皮肤上的、非侵入性的超薄电生理传感器，其柔软度与人体表皮相匹配。它们被认为是长期监测心电图（ECG）、肌电图（EMG）和脑电图（EEG）的最亲密和舒适的可穿戴传感器。如果能够实现EEPS的低功耗和无线操作，EEPS在改变移动医疗（mHealth）和人机界面（HMI）方面具有巨大的潜力。在众多无线技术中，选择了近场通信（NFC），因为它可以无线传输电力和数据，从而可以绕过EEPS上的电池和笨重的无线模块。因此，提出的无线EEPS将只包含三个组件：可拉伸的金EP电极，铝可拉伸平面天线（SPA）和一个毫米大小的集成电路（IC）芯片。可拉伸EP电极和SPA已经成功制造，因此研究目标可以通过以下三个研究任务来实现：1)皮肤贴装SPA的合理设计、表征和优化；2)用于EEPS数据采集（DAQ）和NFC的超低功耗、零外部元件IC的设计；3)三个组件的集成和无线EEPS的验证。提出的SPAMIC技术将实现首个低成本，无电池，无线EEPS，刚性组件最少。它对移动医疗和HMI的影响可能是破坏性的，因为与现有昂贵且受限的系统相比，它将使更实惠、可靠、长期和无障碍的EP监测成为可能。本提案的教育和推广目标是将研究工作和成果与研究生，本科和K-12教育紧密结合，并在全球传播研究和教育成果。b)技术摘要：尽管EEPS具有前所未有的轻薄性和可穿戴性，但微处理器、无线通信模块和电池很难制造出像EEPS那样轻薄的产品。连接EEPS到DAQ的电缆不仅有阻碍作用，而且是运动伪影和干扰的主要来源。我们建议开发由集成电路（SPAMIC）调制的可拉伸平面天线，该天线支持无电池无线EEPS，具有三个前所未有的优点：最小化伪影EP测量，长期可穿戴性和低成本。尽管NFC有许多优点，但在EEPS中实施NFC存在两个主要挑战：1)尽管SPA可以像EEPS一样薄且具有拉伸性，但其操作可能受到生物整合和机械变形的显著影响。因此，所提出的工作的第一个知识价值是对皮肤安装SPA的电/机械/生物耦合的基本理解，以及通过这种基本理解实现SPA的整体设计范式。ii)从NFC中获得的功率非常有限，特别是在长距离和由于生物耦合而存在大频率失谐的情况下。因此，第二个智力优势是超低功耗集成电路的设计和芯片上的频率补偿，以减轻生物集成SPA的动态变化。这项工作的变革方面源于SPAMIC在其他可穿戴甚至可植入设备上的广泛适用性。

ECCS- Prop. No. 15097671- Proposal Title: Stretchable Planar Antenna Modulated by Integrated Circuit (SPAMIC) for the Near Field Communication (NFC) of Epidermal Electrophysiological Sensors (EEPS) 2- Brief description of project Goals:To investigate and implement stretchable planar antenna modulated by integrated circuit for the near field communication of epidermal electrophysiological sensors.3- Abstract:a) Nontechnical Abstract:Epidermal electrophysiological sensor (EEPS) is a class of skin mounted, non-invasive, ultra-thin electrophysiological (EP) sensors with softness matching human epidermis. They are considered the most intimate and comfortable wearable sensors for long term EP monitoring including electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyogram (EMG), and electroencephalogram (EEG). EEPS has a great potential to transform both mobile health (mHealth) and human-machine interface (HMI) if the low power and wireless operation of EEPS can be realized. Out of many wireless technologies, near field communication (NFC) is chosen because it can wirelessly transmit both power and data, which makes it possible to bypass both batteries and bulky wireless modules on the EEPS. Therefore the proposed wireless EEPS will house only three components: stretchable gold EP electrodes, aluminum stretchable planar antenna (SPA), and one single millimeter-sized integrated circuit (IC) chip. Stretchable EP electrodes and SPA have been successfully manufactured, hence the research objective can be achieved through the following three research tasks: i) the rational design, characterization, and optimization of skin-mounted SPA, ii) the design of the ultra-low-power, zero-external-component IC for EEPS data acquisition (DAQ) and NFC, and iii) the integration of the three components and the validation of the wireless EEPS. The proposed SPAMIC technology will enable the first low cost, battery-free, wireless EEPS with minimum rigid component. The impact on mobile health and HMI can be disruptive because it will make possible more affordable, dependable, long term, and unobstructive EP monitoring in comparison with existing expensive and confining systems. The education and outreach objective of this proposal is to tightly integrate the research efforts and results with graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 education and to globally disseminate both research and the education outcomes.b) Technical Abstract:Although the unprecedented thinness and compliance of EEPS offer ultimate conformability to human skin and long term wearability, microprocessors, wireless communication modules, and batteries cannot be manufactured as thin and soft as the EEPS very easily. Cables that connect the EEPS to the DAQ are not only obstructive, but also a major source of motion artifacts and interference. We propose to develop stretchable planar antenna modulated by integrated circuit (SPAMIC)-enabled battery free, wireless EEPS with three unprecedented merits: artifact-minimized EP measurement, long term wearability, and low cost. Despite the many merits of NFC, there are two major challenges to implement NFC for EEPS: i) Although the SPA can be made as thin as stretchable as EEPS, its operation can be significantly affected by bio-integration and mechanical deformation. Therefore the first intellectual merit of the proposed work is the fundamental understanding of the electrical/mechanical/bio coupling of skin-mounted SPA and the holistic design paradigm of SPA enabled by this fundamental understanding. ii) The power harvested from NFC is very limited especially at long distance and in the presence of large frequency detuning due to bio-coupling. Thus, the second intellectual merit is the design of ultra-low-power IC and applying on-chip frequency compensation to mitigate the dynamic variation of bio-integrated SPA. The transformative aspect of this work arises from the broad applicability of SPAMIC to other wearable and even implantable devices when they try to go wireless.