The adoption of neural interfacing into neurological diagnosis is severely hampered by the complex, costly, and error‐prone manufacturing methods, requiring new fabrication processes and materials for flexible neural interfacing. Here a strategy for fabricating highly stretchable neural electrode arrays based on screen printing of liquid metal conductors onto polydimethylsiloxane substrates is presented. The screen‐printed electrode arrays show a resolution of 50 µm, which is ideally applicable to neural interfaces. The integration of liquid metal–polymer conductor enables the neural electrode arrays to retain stable electrical properties and compliant mechanical performance under a significant (≈108%) strain. Taking advantage of its high biocompatibility, liquid metal electrode arrays exhibit excellent performance for neurite growth and long‐term implantation. The stretchable electrode arrays can spontaneously conformally come in touch with the brain surface, and high‐throughput electrocorticogram signals are recorded. Based on stretchable electrode arrays, real‐time monitoring of epileptiform activities can be provided at different states of seizure. The method reported here offers a new fabrication strategy to manufacture stretchable neural electrodes, with additional potential utility in diagnostic brain–machine interfaces.
Abstract-In this paper, a X-band wideband bandpass filter based on a novel substrate integrated waveguide-to-defected ground structure (SIW-DGS) cell is presented. In the cell, the DGS is etched on the top plane of the SIW with high accuracy, so that the performance of the filter can be kept as good as possible. Finally, the filter, consisting of three cascaded cells, is designed and measured to meet compact size, low insertion loss, good return loss as well as smooth group delay. There is good agreement between the measurement and simulation results.
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