Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

Ecole Polytechnique Féderale De Lausanne (epfl)

Arthur Hirsch

Stephanie P Lacour

Ivan Rusev Minev

Grégoire Courtine

Pavel Musienko

Hadrien Michaud

A method for manufacturing an electrical conductor includes: depositing a solid metal conductive layer or film on a substrate; depositing a liquid metal on the solid layer; and allowing the liquid metal and the solid layerto alloy by diffusion of the liquid metal into the solid layer or film so as to form a solid conductive layer or film of the alloy; as well as allowing the liquid metal to further infiltrate the alloy so as to form percolating paths and/or droplets of the liquid metal in the the solid conductive layer or film, thus forming a biphasic conductive layer.

Method for manufacturing electrical conductors, and electrical conductors manufactured according to same

A method produces a device adapted to be implanted into the human body for purposes such as neural stimulation, sensing or the like. The method includes: providing a stretchable layer or membrane of an insulating material; forming on the layer or membrane at least one stretchable conductive path; depositing at least one small bolus of a soft and conductive paste or material onto pre-defined areas or portions of the at least one conductive path, and inserting a first end portion of a conductive elementinto the at least one bolus of soft conductive paste or material. A second end portion of the conductive element opposite to the first end portion is not inserted into the at least one bolus.

Synthetic skin for recording and modulating physiological activities

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Arthur Hirsch