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Switched-Mode High Frequency Stimulator Design

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Design of Efficient and Safe Neural Stimulators

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This chapter presents a neural stimulator system that employs a fundamentally different way of stimulating neural tissue compared to classical constant current stimulation. It uses the concept of switched-mode duty cycled stimulation as introduced in Chap. 4: a stimulation pulse is composed of a sequence of current pulses injected at a frequency of 1 MHz for which the duty cycle is used to control the stimulation intensity.

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  1. NXP Semiconductors N.V., Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Marijn van Dongen

  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Wouter Serdijn

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van Dongen, M., Serdijn, W. (2016). Switched-Mode High Frequency Stimulator Design. In: Design of Efficient and Safe Neural Stimulators. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28131-5_7

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