Substrate arrays of iridium oxide microelectrodes for in vitro neuronal interfacing

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2009, Pages

  Gawad, Shady ^a,b   Giugliano, Michele ^a,c   Heuschkel, Marc ^a   Wessling, Börge ^d   Markram, Henry ^a   Schnakenberg, Uwe ^d   Renaud, Philippe ^a   Morgan, Hywel ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex; Electrophysiology; Extracellular recordings; Impedance spectroscopy; Neurons; Substrate microelectrodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053985213     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.16.001.2009     Document Type: Article

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