Patent ID: 9730596
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: A61B,B82Y,G01N,Y10T

Claim:
1. A low power sensing system suitable for use within a biological organism, the low power sensing system comprising: one or more graphene sensors, each graphene sensor having a first end and a second end, each first end configured to couple to a nerve cell of the biological organism, the graphene sensors configured to sense electrical signals originating from within the nerve cell and, in response, output sensed electrical signals; and an implantable tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) being electrically coupled to the second end of the one or more the graphene sensors, the TFET being configured to be activated by the sensed electrical signals, the TFET having a source terminal and a gate terminal, the source terminal being coupled to the second end of a first one of the graphene sensors, and the gate terminal being coupled to the second end of a second one of the graphene sensors.