Flexible electronic/optoelectronic microsystems with scalable designs for chronic biointegration.

ABSTRACT: Flexible biocompatible electronic systems that leverage key materials and manufacturing techniques associated with the consumer electronics industry have potential for broad applications in biomedicine and biological research. This study reports scalable approaches to technologies of this type, where thin microscale device components integrate onto flexible polymer substrates in interconnected arrays to provide multimodal, high performance operational capabilities as intimately coupled biointerfaces. Specificially, the material options and engineering schemes summarized here serve as foundations for diverse, heterogeneously integrated systems. Scaled examples incorporate >32,000 silicon microdie and inorganic microscale light-emitting diodes derived from wafer sources distributed at variab

SUBMITTER: Song E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6681732 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature