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 Silicon Neural Nanoprobes

Quick Overview of Current Designs (Gen-2)

Here we provide a quick synopsis of the probe designs for the current generation of nanoprobes. Complete design documents for all nanoprobe foundry runs are provided at the bottom of this web page, under the heading "Design Documents".

Figure 1.  Gen-2 Neural Nanoprobe Designs. Nanoprobes P01, P02, P04, P06, P07, P08, and P10 enable highly-multiplexed Ephys measurements. Nanoprobe P05 facilitates concurrent Echem and Ephys measurements. Specification for each of these probes is summarized in Table 1, below.

Figure 2.  Details of Ephys / Echem Nanoprobe Topography. Magenta regions comprise multiplexed nanowire runs from individual electrodes to their respective contacts at the probe head.

Design Documents

These documents provide an overview of the production runs and elucidate design details for probe architectures that have been foundry fabricated en masse.

Current Generation   (expected delivery ~Q4/2017):

      Gen-2 (2016-2017) = Ephys & Echem (~12.6 MB)

Previous Generation(s)   (not available for dissemination):

      Gen-1 (2014-2015) = Ephys (~8.4 MB)

      Reference: Rios et al., Nano Lett (2016)

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