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To address this problem, we propose a new magnetic-balanced inductive link for our implantable glaucoma treatment device. In this inductive link, an extra coil is specially added for the uplink receiving. The strong power carrier interference is minimized to approach zero by balanced canceling of the magnetic field of the external power coil. The implant coil is shared by the wireless power harvesting and the uplink data transmitting. Two carriers (i.e., 2-MHz power carrier and 500-kHz uplink carrier) are used for the wireless power transmission and the uplink data transmission separately. In the experiments, the prototype of this link achieves as high as 65.72 dB improvement of the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) compared with the conventional two-coil inductive link. Benefiting from the significant improvement of SIR, the implant transmitter costs only 0.2 mW of power carrying 50 kbps of binary phase shift keying data and gets a bit error rate of 1 \u00d7 10      \u2212 7     , even though the coupling coefficient is as low as 0.005. At the same time, 5 mW is delivered to the load with maximum power transfer efficiency of 58.8%. This magnetic-balanced inductive link is useful for small-sized biomedical sensor devices, which require transmitting data and power simultaneously under ultra-weak coupling.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17081768","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,2]],"date-time":"2017-08-02T10:05:25Z","timestamp":1501668325000},"page":"1768","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["A Magnetic-Balanced Inductive Link for the Simultaneous Uplink Data and Power Telemetry"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3369-6732","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chen","family":"Gong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Application Specific Instruction-Set Processors, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dake","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Application Specific Instruction-Set Processors, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6860-0892","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhidong","family":"Miao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Application Specific Instruction-Set Processors, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Application Specific Instruction-Set Processors, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"777","article-title":"A Circadian and Cardiac Intraocular Pressure Sensor for Smart Implantable Lens","volume":"9","author":"Donida","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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