Development of Conformal MultiElectrode Probe Arrays
 
 

Goals: The fabrication of conformally-mapped neural probe arrays.

Progress: Sixty-four element multi-electrode arrays have been fabricated for acute or cultured hippocampal slices in order to electrophysiologically monitor and interconnect the CA3 and CA1 regions. Preliminary functional tests are underway.

 
Figure 1: Photomicrograph of fabricated
conformal neural probe array.
Figure 2: A conformal neural probe array aligned with a hippocampal slice so as to stimulate CA3 afferents to the CA1 cell field.