A highly compliant serpentine shaped polyimide interconnect for front-end strain relief in chronic neural implants

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 4 SEP, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sankar, Viswanath ^a   Sanchez, Justin C ^b   McCumiskey, Edward ^c   Brown, Nagid ^c   Taylor, Curtis R ^c   Ehlert, Gregory J ^c   Sodano, Henry A ^c   Nishida, Toshikazu ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Flexible microelectrode array; High compliance electrode cable; Neuroprosthetics; Strain relief

Indexed keywords

POLYIMIDE; SERPENTINE; TUNGSTEN;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CABLE ELECTRODE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); COMPUTER PROGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DEVICE; MICROELECTRODE; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NANOFABRICATION; NEUROLOGICAL IMPLANT; PROCESS DESIGN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; SPRING; SURFACE PROPERTY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84885352964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00124     Document Type: Article

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