Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis: Implant fabrication and performance

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Lele ^a   Mathieson, K ^b,c,d   Kamins, T I ^a   Loudin, J D ^b   Galambos, L ^a   Goetz, G ^a,b   Sher, A ^c   Mandel, Y ^b   Huie, P ^b   Lavinsky, D ^b   Harris, J S ^a   Palanker, D V ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ELECTRODES; DIODE STRUCTURE; FABRICATED DEVICE; IRIDIUM OXIDES; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; NEURAL INTERFACES; NUTRIENT DIFFUSION; PHOTODIODE ARRAYS; PHOTORESPONSIVITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PIXEL SIZE; POWER CONNECTIONS; RETINAL DISEASE; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINAL STIMULATION; REVERSE-BIAS; SILICON AREA; SILICON PHOTODIODE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; ZERO VOLTAGE;

DIODES; ELECTRODES; FABRICATION; INFRARED DEVICES; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTODIODES; PROSTHETICS;

PIXELS;

IRIDIUM COMPLEX; SILICON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIODE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOPROSTHESIS; IMPLANTATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOVOLTAIC RETINAL PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; MICROELECTRODES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SILICON; SWINE; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84863821868     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/9/4/046014     Document Type: Article

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