Abstract

This article presents a new configurable wireless sensor system. The system is used to perform amperometric measurements and send the measurement data to a handheld reader using a wireless transponder interface. The two-chip sensor system was implemented in a 0.35 μm CMOS technology. The system consists of an integrated nano-potentiostat that performs the actual measurements and an ISO 18000-3 compliant frontend that enables wireless telemetric data transmission and powering of the entire sensor system. The system was manufactured in combination with a chronoamperometric glucose sensor which allows the measurement of the glucose content in tear fluid and thus a non-invasive determination of the blood sugar level. For a range of sensor currents from 0.1 μA to 10 μA, the potentiostat achieved an accuracy of better than 5 % with a total power dissipation of less than 600 μW. With the realized antenna geometry a wireless communication distance of more than 7 cm has been achieved.

Highlights

  • For a wide range of applications, such as environmental measurement, process control, and biomedical monitoring, electrochemical sensors converting the chemical concentration into an electrical signal are used

  • The resulting average power dissipation is approx. 50 μW. Both ASICs are manufactured in Fraunhofer IMS 0.35 μm CMOS technology

  • The digital part the potentiostat is responsible for the execution the startup procedure of Before characterizing the of entire system, validating simulations were of performed

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Summary

Introduction

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System Architecture
Circuit Implementation
Demodulator
Digital Interface
Control Loop: sensorAmplifier electrodes and causing them
Sensor equivalent circuits
Switched-Capacitor
Switched-Capacitor Cyclic ADC
Digital Part
Results
Characteriszation of the RF Frontend
Characteriszation of the Potentiostat
Measurements with a Resistance Decade Box to Characterize the TIA
Electrochemical Measurements
15. Automated measurement setup with with
Wireless Concentration Measurement
18. Equipped board with reader
Experimental Measurements
Conclusions

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