Advances in Materials for Recent Low-Profile Implantable Bioelectronics

Low-k Materials: Recent Advances

From a historical point of view, the search for new low-k and ultra-low-k materials has always been dictated by industrial needs, resulting in a strong connection between fundamental research and technology. Although a variety of potential candidates has been reported in the literature during the past decade, integration is the deciding factor driving the selection of the most promising materia...

Advances in nanowire bioelectronics.

Semiconductor nanowires represent powerful building blocks for next generation bioelectronics given their attractive properties, including nanometer-scale footprint comparable to subcellular structures and bio-molecules, configurable in nonstandard device geometries readily interfaced with biological systems, high surface-to-volume ratios, fast signal responses, and minimum consumption of energ...

1 Implantable Bioelectronics – Editorial Introduction

The integration of electronic elements with biological systems, resulting in novel devices with unusual functionalities, attracts significant research efforts owing to fundamental scientific interest and the possible practical applications of such devices. The commonly used buzzword ‘‘bioelectronics’’ highlights the functional integration of two different areas of science and engineering – biol...

Recent advances on thermoelectric materials

By converting waste heat into electricity through the thermoelectric power of solids without producing greenhouse gas emissions, thermoelectric generators could be an important part of the solution to today’s energy challenge. There has been a resurgence in the search for new materials for advanced thermoelectric energy conversion applications. In this paper, we will review recent efforts on im...

Recent Advances in EMG Pattern Recognition for Prosthetic Control