Sponge-like solar cells could form the basis for less-invasive pacemakers or similar medical devices
How Medtronic fit a battery into a tiny pacemaker - Medical Design and Outsourcing
Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (1974) | Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity
A nuclear-powered cardiac pacemaker? Yes, but…. (Part 3) - Power Electronic Tips
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FDA warns Medtronic pacemaker patients about potential battery depletion problem
Researchers debut battery-less pacemaker
Medtronic's Atomic Pacemaker (early 1970's) – The World of Implantable Devices
Nuclear Batteries – The World of Implantable Devices
Teeny Tiny Pacemaker Fits Inside the Heart - IEEE Spectrum
Temporary pacemaker regulates heart rhythm then completely disappears – Physics World
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Atomic battery - Wikipedia
Russian scientists pack more power into nuclear battery prototype
Micromachines | Free Full-Text | Cardiac Implantable Electronic Miniaturized and Micro Devices
A HEART IS GIVEN ATOM PACEMAKER - The New York Times
MedTech Memoirs: The Plutonium-Powered Pacemaker - Medical Design and Outsourcing
Nuclear Batteries with Potential
Nuclear Diamond Battery Will Run For 28,000 Years: NDB Facts
Between 1966 and 1972, many heart pacemaker implants used radioactive Plutonium-238 embedded in the device as a power source. So-called Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers could maintain continuous power for over 40 years. :
Medtronic's Atomic Pacemaker (early 1970's) – The World of Implantable Devices
Physics - Wireless Power for Tiny Medical Devices
Arco Medical's Nuclear-Powered Pacemaker (ca.1974) – The World of Implantable Devices
Nuclear Batteries – The World of Implantable Devices
Micromachines | Free Full-Text | The Miniaturization of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices: Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Modalities
Tiny Nuclear Pacemaker For the Heart Developed - The New York Times
The case of the Pu-powered pacemaker -- ANS / Nuclear Newswire
