1 $\mu$m-Thickness Ultra-Flexible and High Electrode-Density Surface Electromyogram Measurement Sheet With 2 V Organic Transistors for Prosthetic Hand Control

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Contributors

  • Hiroshi Fuketa - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Kazuaki Yoshioka - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Yasuhiro Shinozuka - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Koichi Ishida - , Chair of Circuit Design and Network Theory, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Tomoyuki Yokota - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Naoji Matsuhisa - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Yusuke Inoue - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Masaki Sekino - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Tsuyoshi Sekitani - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Makoto Takamiya - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Takao Someya - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)
  • Takayasu Sakurai - , Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) (Author)

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.

Details

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

External IDs

Scopus 84921493006
ORCID /0000-0002-4152-1203/work/165453436

Keywords

Keywords

  • Electrodes, Electromyography, Organic thin film transistors, Prosthetic hand