Encapsulation of organic field effect transistors for flexible biomedical microimplants

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-109

  Feili, Dara ^a   Schuettler, Martin ^b   Doerge, Thomas ^a   Kammer, Sascha ^a   Stieglitz, Thomas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Encapsulation; Microimplants; Neural prostheses; Organic field effect transistor; Parylene; Polyimide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEUROLOGY; POLYIMIDES; PROSTHETICS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (OFET); POLYIMIDE BASE ELECTRODES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ULTRA HIGH VACUUM (UHV);

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 17444364109     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2004.11.021     Document Type: Article

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