Medical Implants from a Unique Technology Combining a Highly Flexible Integration of Passives with Outstanding Performances

Abstract

Many implantable medical devices such as pacemaker, cochlear implant have been developed and tremendously improved in battery power, functionality, electrical power consumption, system delivery, and wireless communication but there is still room for improvement and they are still facing challenges in size shrinkage and reliability. Many efforts have been engaged to miniaturize and to facilitate the implantation of the device in order to reduce the impact of the surgery. IPDiA technology is actively contributing to this progress by providing passive components such as capacitor arrays or RC networks, with a high level of miniaturization , very low profile , very low leakage current , and outstanding reliability. In this paper, the enablers such as design flexibility, co-integration, low leakage current, extended life time will be presented and illustrated by several examples of solutions. Firstly, the recent progress in the capacitor technology development will be presented , secondly the focus will be made on the key differentiators and finally some of the applications where this technology is inescapable will be depicted.