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Actuator-Control Circuit Based on OTFTs and Flow-Rate Estimation for an All-Organic Fluid Pump

Lei CHEN, Tapas Kumar MAITI, Hidenori MIYAMOTO, Mitiko MIURA-MATTAUSCH, Hans Jürgen MATTAUSCH

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In this paper, we report the design of an organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) driver circuit for the actuator of an organic fluid pump, which can be integrated in a portable-size fully-organic artificial lung. Compared to traditional pump designs, lightness, compactness and scalability are achieved by adopting a creative pumping mechanism with a completely organic-material-based system concept. The transportable fluid volume is verified to be flexibly adjustable, enabling on-demand controllability and scalability of the pump's fluid-flow rate. The simulations, based on an accurate surface-potential OTFT compact model, demonstrate that the necessary driving waveforms can be efficiently generated and adjusted to the actuator requirements. At the actuator-driving-circuit frequency of 0.98Hz, an all-organic fluid pump with 40cm length and 0.2cm height is able to achieve a flow rate of 0.847L/min, which satisfies the requirements for artificial-lung assist systems to a weakened normal lung.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E99-A No.4 pp.798-805
Publication Date
2016/04/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E99.A.798
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Systems and Control

Authors

Lei CHEN
  Hiroshima University
Tapas Kumar MAITI
  Hiroshima University
Hidenori MIYAMOTO
  Hiroshima University
Mitiko MIURA-MATTAUSCH
  Hiroshima University
Hans Jürgen MATTAUSCH
  Hiroshima University

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