A Power-Harvesting CGM Chiplet Featuring Silicon-Based Enzymatic Glucose Sensor

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul:2022:4626-4630. doi: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871755.

Abstract

Diabetes has become a leading cause of death and disability in the past decades. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is a prevailing technique to determine the glucose level and provide in-time treatment. However, conventional CGM systems combine an electrochemical sensor with a CMOS chip, suffering from bulky size and interface issues. Integrating the CGM sensor on silicon is potential to miniaturize the CGM system and reduce the cost, while the recent silicon-based sensors show limited detection range and sensitivity. In this work, we present a silicon-based CGM chip let with wireless power transfer (WPT) and real-time wireless telemetry. Fabricated on a single silicon substrate, the chiplet consists of a silicon-based CGM sensor, a power-harvesting wireless-telemetry chip, and a silicon-based antenna. Measured results show that the chip let achieves a sensitivity of 4 μA.mM.cm-2 and a linear detection range of 0-10 mM. Based on WPT and backscattering communication, the chip let consumes 18.8 μ W power in glucose telemetry.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Blood Glucose
  • Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring*
  • Glucose
  • Silicon*
  • Telemetry / methods

Substances

  • Blood Glucose
  • Glucose
  • Silicon