A complete 256-electrode retinal prosthesis chip

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 751-765

  Tran, Nhan ^a   Bai, Shun ^a   Yang, Jiawei ^a   Chun, Hosung ^a   Kavehei, Omid ^a   Yang, Yuanyuan ^a   Muktamath, Vijay ^a   Ng, David ^a   Meffin, Hamish ^a   Halpern, Mark ^a   Skafidas, Efstratios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical electronics; CMOS integrated circuits; data communication; electrical stimulation; electrostatic discharge; neural prosthesis; retinal prosthesis; visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; NEURAL PROSTHESES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROSTHETICS;

BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONICS; DATA-COMMUNICATION; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES;

EID: 84898602188     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2298037     Document Type: Article

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