Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 14, Issue 4, 271(2018)

An implantable optrode composed of fiber and flexible thin-film electrode

Fei WANG1,2,3, Dong-mei GUO4, Yu-xing XIE1,2,3, Liang ZHANG1, Wei-hua PEI1,2,3、*, and Hong-da CHEN1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
  • 4Hebei Vocational College of Rail Transportation, Shijiazhuang 050000, China
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    An implantable optrode composed of fiber and multi-channel flexible thin-film electrode is developed. The flexible recording electrode is made from polyimide and is wrapped around the optical fiber. The front end of the fiber is ta-pered by wet etching. With the tapered shape, the light can leak from the sidewall of the fiber, and the tapered tip makes it easy to be implanted. The flexible electrode is attached with its recording sites aligning to the tapered part on the fiber. With this method, the fiber acts as an optical waveguide, as well as a support probe for flexible thin-film electrode. This novel device simplifies the fabrication process and decreases the size of the optrode. The device works well in vivo and the optical caused spike can be recorded with signal-to-noise ratio of 6:1.

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    WANG Fei, GUO Dong-mei, XIE Yu-xing, ZHANG Liang, PEI Wei-hua, CHEN Hong-da. An implantable optrode composed of fiber and flexible thin-film electrode[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2018, 14(4): 271

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    Paper Information

    Category: Devices

    Received: Feb. 28, 2018

    Accepted: Apr. 2, 2018

    Published Online: Apr. 16, 2019

    The Author Email: Wei-hua PEI (peiwh@semi.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-018-8030-0

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