Heraeus Precious Metals Gmbh & Co. Kg

Michael Pönitz

Frank Krüger

Oliver Keitel

A stimulation electrode is produced having a porous film layer and being partially coated with an insulating parylene (polyparaxylylene) film, whose insulating film has a dielectric breakdown voltage of greater than 100 V. Parylene is deposited on the entire surface of a porous film coating and then partially removed again by plasma. After the partial removal of the parylene, this porous film still has a capacitance of greater than 15 mF/cmin a physiological NaCl solution at a frequency of 0.1 Hz. For the stimulation electrode, the transition from the insulating film to the porous film is formed so that the film thickness of the parylene film decreases continuously. In this way, a stimulation electrode having a porous film layer and being partially coated with an insulating parylene film is provided, whose electrode on the non-insulating parylene film-coated surface has a capacitance of greater than 15 mF/cmin a physiological NaCl solution at a frequency of 0.1 Hz and whose insulating film advantageously has a dielectric breakdown voltage of greater than 100 V.

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Hanau, Germany

Michael Pönitz