Micromachining of flexible neural implants with low-ohmic wire traces using electroplating

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 96, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 105-110

  Gross, Matthias ^a   Altpeter, Dominique ^a   Stieglitz, Thomas ^a   Schuettler, Martin ^b   Meyer, J Uwe ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroplating; Gold; Neural implant; Polyimide; Resistance; Wire trace

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPLATING; GOLD; MICROMACHINING; POLYIMIDES; PROBES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPUTTERING;

NEURAL IMPLANTS; NEURON MICROPROBE; STIMULATION ELECTRODES; WIRE TRACE;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

EID: 0037186192     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(01)00768-3     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Regeneration electrode units: Implant for recording from single peripheral nerve fibers in freely moving animals
2. A peripheral nerve information transducer for amputees: Long-term multichannel recording from rabbit peripheral nerves
3. A flexible, light-weighted multichannel sieve electrode with integrated cables for interfacing regenerating peripheral nerves
4. A first approach towards a biohybrid neural interface to restore skeletal muscle function after peripheral nerve lesions
5. A biohybrid system to interface peripheral nerves after traumatic lesions: Design of a high channel sieve electrode
6. The thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity of gold from 80 to 340 K
7. An experimental study of the resistivity-concentration dependence of alloys
8. An artificial nerve fiber for evaluation of nerve cuff electrodes
9. Grenzflächenaspekte bei der Entwicklung von Stimulationselektroden
10. Real surface-area measurements in electrochemistry
11. Die Bedeutung der Phasengrenze zwischen alloplastichen Festkörpern und biologischen Geweben für die Elektrostimulation