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Silicon optrode array with monolithically integrated SU-8 waveguide and single LED light source
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- Issue Date
- 2022-08
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Citation
- Journal of Neural Engineering, Vol.19 No.4, p. 046013
- Abstract
- Objective. This paper presents a conventional light emitting diode (LED) and polymer waveguide coupled silicon optrode array. Approach. Unique lens design at the waveguide inlet enables a high light coupling efficiency with a single LED light source, and provides small power consumption compatible with a wireless optogenetic neuromodulation system. To increase the light intensity at the waveguide tip, a lensed waveguide is fabricated with epoxy-based photoresist SU-8, which has a plano-convex lens shape at the waveguide inlet to focus the light in the horizontal direction. In addition, a cylindrical lens is assembled in front of the waveguide inlet to focus the source light in the vertical direction. Main results. The glass cylindrical lens and SU-8 plano-convex lens increased the light coupling efficiency by 6.7 dB and 6.6 dB, respectively. The fabricated 1 x 4 array of optrodes is assembled with a single LED with 465 nm wavelength, which produces a light intensity of approximately 2.7 mW mm(-2) at the SU-8 waveguide outlet when 50 mA input current is applied to the LED. Each optrode has four recording electrodes at the SU-8 waveguide outlet. The average impedance of the iridium oxide (IrO (x) ) electroplated recording electrodes is 43.6 k omega. Significance. In-vivo experiment at the hippocampus region CA1 and CA2 demonstrated the capability of optical stimulation and neural signal recording through the LED and SU-8 waveguide coupled silicon optrode array.
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- 1741-2560
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