Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Wireless Power Transfer System for Medical Implant Devices

Funding suppliers: Engineering and Bodily Sciences Analysis Council (EPSRC) and Swansea College’s College of Science and Engineering

Topic areas: Digital and electrical engineering, physics and biomedical engineering

The analysis is at the forefront of creating revolutionary options for wi-fi energy switch techniques tailor-made for medical implant gadgets. This interdisciplinary analysis will contain the mixing of energy digital converters and machine studying algorithms to reinforce the effectivity, reliability, and security of energy supply to medical implants. 

Undertaking begin date: 

• 1 October 2024 (Enrolment open from mid-September)
• 1 January 2025 (Enrolment open from mid-December)

Undertaking description: 

Implantable medical gadgets (IMD’s) are gaining reputation within the well being and medical sectors due to their huge functions, resembling cardiac pacemakers, synthetic hearts, defibrillators, coronary stents, intraocular lenses, hip implants, orthopaedic implants, and implantable glucose sensors. Historically, these IMDs are battery-dependent with restricted life span therefore surgical procedure is required to interchange the battery, which is the largest supply of misery in sufferers. A wi-fi energy switch (WPT) system can show to be a wonderful different that acts as a wi-fi charger to the medical implants.

Nonetheless, there are a lot of concerns when designing a WPT system. For instance, the gap between energy transmitter and place of the IMD contained in the human physique, the working frequency and its impact on the physique’s tissue, and dimension of the WPT system are a few of the main concerns.

Due to this fact, the analysis into WPT system consists of optimizing the scale and geometry of the coils of transmitter and receiver, applicable materials choice for the coil, discovering the optimum working frequency, enhancing the standard issue of the inductors and number of finest performing compensation capacitor to reinforce the effectivity of the system.

Eligibility 

Candidates should maintain an undergraduate diploma at 2.1 stage (or Non-UK equal as outlined by Swansea College) in Engineering or comparable related science self-discipline. In case you are eligible to use for the scholarship (i.e. a scholar who’s eligible to pay the UK fee of tuition charges) however don’t maintain a UK diploma, you possibly can examine our comparability entry necessities. Please observe that you could be want to supply proof of your English Language proficiency.

Because of funding restrictions, this scholarship is open to candidates eligible to pay tuition charges on the UK fee solely, as outlined by UKCISA laws.

Please go to our web site for extra info on eligibility.

Further Funding Info

This scholarship covers the total price of UK tuition charges and an annual stipend at £19,237.

Further analysis bills will even be accessible.