1 μm-thickness ultra-flexible and high electrode-density surface electromyogram measurement sheet with 2 v organic transistors for prosthetic hand control

Hiroshi Fuketa, Kazuaki Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Shinozuka, Koichi Ishida, Tomoyuki Yokota, Naoji Matsuhisa, Yusuke Inoue, Masaki Sekino, Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Makoto Takamiya, Takao Someya, Takayasu Sakurai

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Abstract

A 64-channel surface electromyogram (EMG) measurement sheet (SEMS) with 2 V organic transistors on a 1 μm-thick ultra-flexible polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) film is developed for prosthetic hand control. The surface EMG electrodes must satisfy the following three requirements; high mechanical flexibility, high electrode density and high signal integrity. To achieve high electrode density and high signal integrity, a distributed and shared amplifier (DSA) architecture is proposed, which enables an in-situ amplification of the myoelectric signal with a fourfold increase in EMG electrode density. In addition, a post-fabrication select-and-connect (SAC) method is proposed to cope with the large mismatch of organic transistors. The proposed SAC method reduces the area and the power overhead by 96% and 98.2%, respectively, compared with the use of conventional parallel transistors to reduce the transistor mismatch by a factor of 10.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6828792
Pages (from-to)824-833
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Volume8
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Dec 1
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Electromyogram
  • Organic large-area electronics
  • Surface EMG measurement

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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