FLAMENCO SIGNED
A Fully-Implantable MEMS-Based Autonomous Cochlear Implant
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Project "FLAMENCO" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
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| Coordinator Country | Turkey [TR] |
| Project website | http://www.flamenco.metu.edu.tr |
| Total cost | 1˙993˙750 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙993˙750 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2015-CoG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-COG |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-07-01 to 2021-06-30 |
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| 1 | MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | TR (ANKARA) | coordinator | 1˙993˙750.00 |
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Project objective
Sensorineural impairment, representing the majority of the profound deafness, can be restored using cochlear implants (CIs), which electrically stimulates the auditory nerve to repair hearing in people with severe-to-profound hearing loss. A conventional CI consists of an external microphone, a sound processor, a battery, an RF transceiver pair, and a cochlear electrode. The major drawback of conventional CIs is that, they replace the entire natural hearing mechanism with electronic hearing, even though most parts of the middle ear are operational. Also, the power hungry units such as microphone and RF transceiver cause limitations in continuous access to sound due to battery problems. Besides, damage risk of external components especially if exposed to water and aesthetic concerns are other critical problems. Limited volume of the middle ear is the main obstacle for developing fully implantable CIs. FLAMENCO proposes a fully implantable, autonomous, and low-power CI, exploiting the functional parts of the middle ear and mimicking the hair cells via a set of piezoelectric cantilevers to cover the daily acoustic band. FLAMENCO has a groundbreaking nature as it revolutionizes the operation principle of CIs. The implant has five main units: i) piezoelectric transducers for sound detection and energy harvesting, ii) electronics for signal processing and battery charging, iii) an RF coil for tuning the electronics to allow customization, iv) rechargeable battery, and v) cochlear electrode for neural stimulation. The utilization of internal energy harvesting together with the elimination of continuous RF transmission, microphone, and front-end filters makes this system a perfect candidate for next generation autonomous CIs. In this project, a multi-frequency self-powered implant for in vivo operation will be implemented, and the feasibility will be proven through animal tests.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |
Bedirhan İlik, Aziz Koyuncuoğlu, Hasan Uluşan, Salar Chamanian, Dilek Işık, Özlem Şardan-Sukas, Haluk Külah Thin Film PZT Acoustic Sensor for Fully Implantable Cochlear Implants published pages: 366, ISSN: 2504-3900, DOI: 10.3390/proceedings1040366 |
Proceedings 1/4 | 2019-06-18 |
| 2018 |
Bedirhan İlik, Aziz Koyuncuoğlu, Özlem Şardan-Sukas, Haluk Külah Thin film piezoelectric acoustic transducer for fully implantable cochlear implants published pages: 38-46, ISSN: 0924-4247, DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2018.07.020 |
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 280 | 2019-06-18 |
| 2018 |
Salar Chamanian, Hasan Ulusan, Aziz Koyuncuoglu, Ali Muhtaroglu, Haluk Kulah An Adaptable Interface Circuit with Multi-Stage Energy Extraction for Low Power Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting MEMS published pages: 1-1, ISSN: 0885-8993, DOI: 10.1109/tpel.2018.2841510 |
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 34/3 | 2019-06-18 |
| 2018 |
parinaz ashrafi; dilek isik Akcakaya; haluk kulah A SYNTHETIC TYMPANIC MEMBRANE FOR MIDDLE EAR ACOUSTIC SENSOR TESTS OF A FULLY IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR PROSTHESIS published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2583960 |
8th International Conference on Middle Ear Mechanics in Research and Otology | 2019-04-18 |
| 2018 |
Bedirhan Ä°lik MEMS THIN FILM PIEZOELECTRIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER FOR COCHLEAR IMPLANT APPLICATIONS published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.21141.58086 |
2019-03-11 | |
| 2018 |
Salar Chamanian Design and Implementation of an Interface Circuit for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-03-20 | |
| 2018 |
Hasan UluÅŸan ULTRA-LOW POWER INTERFACE ELECTRONICS DESIGN FOR FULLY IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR IMPLANTS published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-03-11 |
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