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Mohamed Nasreldin1, Roger Delattre2, Marc Ramuz3
1Mines Saint-Etienne, Center of Microelectronics in Provence, Department of Flexible Electronics, F-13541 Gardanne, France. mohamed.nasreldin@emse.fr.
Abstract:
In this paper, we demonstrate the first attempt of encapsulating a flexible micro battery into a contact lens to implement an eye-tracker. The paper discusses how to scale the battery to power various circuits embedded in the contact lens, such as ASIC, photodiodes, etc., as well as how to combine the battery with external harvested energy sources. The fabricated ring battery has a surface area of 0.75 cm2 yielding an areal capacity of 43 µAh·cm-2 at 20C. Based on simulated 0.35-µm CMOS ASIC power consumption, this value is large enough to allow powering the ASIC for 3 minutes. The functioning of the micro battery is demonstrated by powering an orange LED.
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