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Kwangsun Song1,2, Jung Hyun Han3, Taehoon Lim1
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 500-712, South Korea.
Advanced Healthcare Materials
|May 4, 2016
Abstract:
A subdermally implantable flexible photovoltatic (IPV) device is proposed for supplying sustainable electric power to in vivo medical implants. Electric properties of the implanted IPV device are characterized in live animal models. Feasibility of this strategy is demonstrated by operating a flexible pacemaker with the subdermal IPV device which generates DC electric power of ≈647 μW under the skin.
