A Minimally Invasive 64-Channel Wireless μeCoG Implant

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 344-359

  Muller, Rikky ^a,b   Le, Hanh Phuc ^a,c   Li, Wen ^a   Ledochowitsch, Peter ^d,e,f   Gambini, Simone ^g   Bjorninen, Toni ^h   Koralek, Aaron ⁱ   Carmena, Jose M ^a,i   Maharbiz, Michel M ^a,d,e   Alon, Elad ^a   Rabaey, Jan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cortera Neurotechnologies Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Lion Semiconductor Inc   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^f ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^g NONE   (United States)

^h TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; ECoG; EEG; implant; in vivo; low power; neural; recording; rectifier; wireless

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODES; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION;

CORTICAL RECORDING; DECOUPLING CAPACITOR; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY (ECOG); EMERGING APPLICATIONS; EXTERNAL COMPONENTS; HIGH POWER CONSUMPTION; MACHINE INTERFACES; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84937636411     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2364824     Document Type: Article

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