Technology and integration of poly-crystalline diamond piezoresistive position sensor for cochlear implant probe

Digest of Technical Papers - International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 543-546

  Tang, Yuxing ^a   Aslam, Dean M ^a   Wang, Jianbai ^b   Wise, Kensall D ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear Implant Probe; Integration; Piezoresistive Sensors; Polycrystalline Diamond

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INTEGRATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PROSTHETICS; SEMICONDUCTING DIAMONDS;

COCHEAR IMPLANT PROBE; CONTACT RESISTANCE; PIEZORESISTIVE SENSORS; POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND;

SENSORS;

EID: 27544445330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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