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Miniaturizing wireless implants

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A breakthrough in wireless power transfer enables smaller implantable devices, opening the door to new applications.

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Figure 1: New mid-field wireless power transfer (WPT) technique demonstrated by Ho et al.

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  1. Henry Mei & Pedro P. Irazoqui are at the Center for Implantable Devices, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.,

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Mei, H., Irazoqui, P. Miniaturizing wireless implants. Nat Biotechnol 32, 1008–1010 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3038

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