Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 244, Issue -, Pages 750-758Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2017.01.052
Keywords
Flexible; Microneedle; Dry electrode; EEG; Parylene
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91323304, 61604134]
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Conventional wet electrodes require skin preparation and gel usage to maintain low interface impedance, which limit their applications in long-term monitoring of biopotentials such as electroencephalogram (EEG). To address this problem, microneedle electrode arrays (MNEAs) have been employed as dry electrodes, which could be capable of EEG monitoring without skin abrasion and gel electrolyte. However, most of them are usually based on rigid substrates that are not conformal to curved and moved human skin. Therefore, we develop a flexible parylene-based MNEA (P-MNEA) with silicon microneedles, which could provide not only conformal but also robust contact. Firstly, the microfabrication process is concretely illustrated and makes it repeatable. Then, penetration tests illustrate these microneedles are robust enough to penetrate into epidermis so that impedances of stratum corneum make limited contribution to interface impedance. Consequently, in vivo impedance results verify the priority of P-MNEA in long-time impedance stability. Meanwhile, competitive impedance density of 7.5 K Omega cm(2)@10 Hz is attained. Eventually, EEG recoding results as well as correlation and coherence analyses of P-MNEA indicate comparable performance to that of wet electrode. In brief, these results reveal promising prospect of P-MNEA in long-time EEG monitoring. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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