Design and fabrication of multi-contact flexible silicon probes for intracortical floating implantation

2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1739-1742

  Schander, A ^a   Tolstosheeva, E ^a   Biefeld, V ^a   Kempen, L ^a   Stemmann, H ^a   Kreiter, A ^a   Lang, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cortex; flexible ribbon cables; floating implantation; microfabrication; parylene C; PEDOT; Silicon neural probes

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CABLES; FLAT CABLES; MICROFABRICATION; MICROSYSTEMS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROBES; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; TRANSDUCERS;

BIOCOMPATIBLE POLYMER; CORTEX; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; PARYLENE C; PEDOT; SILICON NEURAL PROBES;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 84955505578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7181281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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