On the Way to Large-Scale and High-Resolution Brain-Chip Interfacing

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-81

  Vassanelli, Stefano ^a   Mahmud, Mufti ^a,b   Girardi, Stefano ^a   Maschietto, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Brain chip interfacing; Electrolyte oxide semiconductor capacitors; Electrolyte oxide semiconductor field effect transistors; Local field potentials; Multi electrode arrays; Multi transistor arrays; Neuronal signal analysis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN-CHIP INTERFACING; FIELD EFFECTS; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIALS; MULTI TRANSISTOR ARRAYS; MULTIELECTRODE ARRAYS;

ANIMALS; CELLS; ELECTROLYTES; GATES (TRANSISTOR); NEURONS;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84858749804     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-011-9121-4     Document Type: Article

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