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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kiran George

fields. Similarly, the out migration fromthe College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at California State University,Fullerton (CSUF) has been profound. In 2010 with funding availed from the NSF, ECS at CSUFestablished the ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program designed toreverse its historical legacy of high student attrition. This program awards scholarships to ECSstudents over the 5-year period of the project and leverages a well-established network of ECSand University student services to support cohorts of ACE scholars (recipients of the ACEscholarship) majoring in ECS majors. The ECS ACE scholarship program provides tuitionscholarships and a myriad of support services ranging from peer mentoring to

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Hao Jiang; José Carrillo; Alam Salguero; Ellaine Talle; Enrique Raygoza; Xenia Leon; Ben Lariviere; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen

AC-DC boost converter for wireless powered miniaturizedbiomedical implant. Biomedical implants are highly anticipated by medical community todramatically improve the healthcare quality with the potential to lower the associated costs.Delivering electrical power to implants wirelessly has a profound impact on implant’s efficacy.Inductive coupling based wireless power delivery realized by two face-to-face coils has been theprimary technology for last several decades [5]. One of the critical challenges is that thereceiving coil must be large enough (in cm range) so that its induced voltage can be significantlyhigher than the diode’s turn-on voltage (about 400~700 mV in silicon technology). Otherwise,the power conversion efficiency (from the