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JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/8/1/014001
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- Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems NSF [EEC-9986866]
- NIH P41 Center for Neural Communication Technology [EB002030]
- Whitaker Foundation
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We investigated using poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) to lower the impedance of small, gold recording electrodes with initial impedances outside of the effective recording range. Smaller electrode sites enable more densely packed arrays, increasing the number of input and output channels to and from the brain. Moreover, smaller electrode sizes promote smaller probe designs; decreasing the dimensions of the implanted probe has been demonstrated to decrease the inherent immune response, a known contributor to the failure of long-term implants. As expected, chronically implanted control electrodes were unable to record well-isolated unit activity, primarily as a result of a dramatically increased noise floor. Conversely, electrodes coated with PEDOT consistently recorded high-quality neural activity, and exhibited a much lower noise floor than controls. These results demonstrate that PEDOT coatings enable electrode designs 15 mu m in diameter.
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