Emerging encapsulation technologies for long-term reliability of microfabricated implantable devices

SH Ahn, J Jeong, SJ Kim - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
The development of reliable long-term encapsulation technologies for implantable
biomedical devices is of paramount importance for the safe and stable operation of implants …

Silicon carbide thin film technologies: recent advances in processing, properties, and applications-Part I

AE Kaloyeros, B Arkles - ECS Journal of Solid State Science and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In Part I of a two-part report, we provide a detailed and systematic review of the latest
progress in cutting-edge innovations for the silicon carbide (SiC) material system, focusing …

High‐Strength Amorphous Silicon Carbide for Nanomechanics

M Xu, D Shin, PM Sberna, R van der Kolk… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, mechanical resonators with high sensitivity have been realized using thin‐film
materials under high tensile loads. Although there are remarkable strides in achieving low …

Flexible and Extensible Ribbon-Cable Interconnects for Implantable Electrical Neural Interfaces

N Geramifard, M Khajehzadeh, B Dousti… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The design and characterization of thin-film ribbon cables as electrical interconnects for
implanted neural stimulation and recording devices are reported. Our goal is to develop …

Recording of pig neuronal activity in the comparative context of the awake human brain

A Dobariya, TY El Ahmadieh, LB Good… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Gyriform mammals display neurophysiological and neural network activity that other species
exhibit only in rudimentary or dissimilar form. However, neural recordings from large …

Insertion mechanics of amorphous SiC ultra-micro scale neural probes

N Geramifard, B Dousti, C Nguyen… - Journal of neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Trauma induced by the insertion of microelectrodes into cortical neural tissue is a
significant problem. Further, micromotion and mechanical mismatch between microelectrode …

Fabrication of a monolithic implantable neural interface from cubic silicon carbide

M Beygi, JT Bentley, CL Frewin, CA Kuliasha, A Takshi… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
One of the main issues with micron-sized intracortical neural interfaces (INIs) is their long-
term reliability, with one major factor stemming from the material failure caused by the …

In Vivo Penetrating Microelectrodes for Brain Electrophysiology

A Erofeev, I Antifeev, A Bolshakova, I Bezprozvanny… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, microelectrodes have been widely used in neuroscience to understand
the mechanisms behind brain functions, as well as the relationship between neural activity …

Chronic stability of local field potentials using amorphous silicon carbide microelectrode arrays implanted in the rat motor cortex

EN Jeakle, JR Abbott, JO Usoro, Y Wu, P Haghighi… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Implantable microelectrode arrays (MEAs) enable the recording of electrical activity of
cortical neurons, allowing the development of brain-machine interfaces. However, MEAs …

Influence of implantation depth on the performance of intracortical probe recording sites

JO Usoro, K Dogra, JR Abbott, R Radhakrishna… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microelectrode arrays (MEAs) enable the recording of electrical activity from cortical neurons
which has implications for basic neuroscience and neuroprosthetic applications. The design …