Integrated Smart Micro-Systems Towards Personalized Healthcare

Presents a thorough summary of recent advances in microelectronic systems and their applications for personalized healthcare

Integrated Smart Micro-Systems Towards Personalized Healthcare provides up-to-date coverage of developments in smart microelectronics and their applications in health-related areas such as sports safety, remote diagnosis, and closed-loop health management. Using a comprehensive approach to the rapidly growing field, this one-stop resource examines different methods, designs, materials, and applications of systems such as multi-modal sensing biomedical platforms and non-invasive health monitoring sensors.

The book’s five parts detail the core units of micro-systems, self-charging power units, self-driven monitor patches, self-powered sensing platforms, and integrated health monitoring systems. Succinct chapters address topics including multi-functional material optimization, multi-dimensional electrode preparation, multi-scene application display, and the use of multi-modal signal sensing to monitor physical and chemical indicators during exercise. Throughout the text, the authors offer key insights on device performance improvement, reliable fabrication processing, and compatible integration designs.

• Provides an overview self-powered, wearable micro-systems with emphasis on personalized healthcare
• Covers the working mechanisms and structural design of different energy-harvesting units, energy storage units, and functional units
• Introduces an integrated self-charging power unit consisting of triboelectric nanogenerators with supercapacitor
• Describes a general solution-evaporation method for developing porous CNT-PDMS conductive elastomers
• Examines a fully-integrated self-powered sweat sensing platform built on a wearable freestanding-mode triboelectric nanogenerator

Integrated Smart Micro-Systems Towards Personalized Healthcare is an essential text for researchers, electronic engineers, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals working in material science, electronics, mechanical engineering, bioengineering, and sensor development.

Yu Song, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA. He has authored more than 60 scientific publications in leading journals including Nature Biotechnology, Science Robotics, and Science Advances.

Wei Gao, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, USA. He has authored nearly 100 publications in the fields of wearable devices, biosensors, flexible electronics, micro/nanorobotics, and nanomedicine.

Haixia (Alice) Zhang, PhD, Professor, School of Integrated Circuit, Peking University, China. She is co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 8 books and 4 book chapters, and 42 patents. She is the recipient of the 2006 National Invention Award of Science & Technology and the 2014 Geneva Invention Gold Medal, Forbes Top 50 Chinese Lady in Sci & Techn.