Jinghua Li

Silicon Thin Film

The Ohio State University

Fontana Lab, 140 W 19th St, Columbus, OH 43210

Email: li.11017@osu.edu

Biography

Abstract for Presentation

Advanced Thin-Film Materials and Electronics for High-Resolution and Chronically Stable Neural Interfaces

   The human body, such as the brain, produces a wide range of biophysical and biochemical signals that contain important information about the health condition and the progression of various diseases. There are critical challenges, however, to efficiently capture the signals due to the rigid characteristics of conventional medical systems. To address this issue, the design of thin, soft and flexible electronics forms the basis of novel wearable and implantable biomedical devices for the diagnostics and treatment of brain injuries and other chronic neurodegenerative diseases with improved outcomes and reduced costs.

This talk will focus on the science and engineering of thin-film materials for recording and stimulation in the nervous system to extend the frontier of human healthcare. I will first introduce the design and innovation of Si nanomembrane as interface to the brain for flexible micro-electrocorticographic (μECoG) arrays with multidecade lifetimes under physiological conditions. The technology enables flexible, actively multiplexed μECoG electrodes for recording and stimulation in nervous systems with chronic stability, high sensitivity, and unprecedented level of spatiotemporal resolution. Together, these materials and electronics provide a realistic pathway to biomedical devices with biocompatibility, bioconformality and biostability for the applications in closed-loop neuromodulation and neuroscience research.