Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
Volume 164, Issue 1-2, Pages 28-34Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2010.09.016
Keywords
Biopotential acquisition; Stimulation; Dry electrode; Microtips array electrode; Iridium oxide (IrO) electrode; Micromachining; Sputtering; Thin films
Funding
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [SFRH/BD/21529/2005]
- [FCT/PTDC/EEA-ENE/66855/2006]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/21529/2005] Funding Source: FCT
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This paper presents a new type of dry electrodes for acquisition of biopotentials and stimulation These dry electrodes are composed by 16 microtip structures (by forming an array of 4 x 4 microtips) which were fabricated through bulk micromachining of a < 100>-type silicon substrate in a potassium hydroxide (KOH) solution The fabrication process was trimmed in a way that each microtip presents solid angles of 547 a width in the range 150-200 mu m a height of 100-200 mu m and an inter-microtip spacing of 2 mm The electrodes have a thin layer (obtained by reactive DC-sputtering) of indium oxide (IrO) to improve the contact with the skin These dry electrodes penetrate the outer skin layer (1 e stratum corneum that is 1011,m thick) to allow a direct contact with the electrolyte fluids of the inner skin layers The new electrode avoid the use of conductive gels and reduce the skin preparation time in EEG experiments which may take about 45 min for a set of 32 standard silver/silver chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrodes The electrode-electrolyte impedance spectrometry (IS) of the IrO thin-films was performed in a saline solution 09% concentration by weight to mimic the electrode-tissue Interface The IS measured results for the IrO coatings were comparable to the results observed for the standard Ag/AgCl electrodes The new dry microtips array constitutes an inexpensive low resistance and mechanically robust alternative electrode for non-invasive biopotential recording/stimulation with fast application on skin (c) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved
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