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A modular multiple frequency inductive link to wirelessly power multiple miniaturized implants

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

A modular multiple frequency coils inductive link system to wirelessly provide power for at least a medical implant at an output of a receiving coil, whereby the receiving coil is configured to be implanted in an organism. The modular multiple frequency co ...

2024

An actor-model framework for visual sensory encoding

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Babak Rahmani, Diego Ghezzi

A fundamental challenge in neuroengineering is determining a proper artificial input to a sensory system that yields the desired perception. In neuroprosthetics, this process is known as artificial sensory encoding, and it holds a crucial role in prostheti ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A Frequency-Switching Inductive Power Transfer System for Wireless, Miniaturised and Large-Scale Neural Interfaces

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

Three-coil inductive power transfer is the state-of-the-art solution to power multiple miniaturised neural implants. However, the maximum delivered power is limited by the efficiency of the powering link and safety constrains. Here we propose a frequency-s ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Wide-angle simulated artificial vision enhances spatial navigation and object interaction in a naturalistic environment

Diego Ghezzi

Objective. Vision restoration approaches, such as prosthetics and optogenetics, provide visual perception to blind individuals in clinical settings. Yet their effectiveness in daily life remains a challenge. Stereotyped quantitative tests used in clinical ...

2024

Bodily implant microelectrode and bodily implant microelectrode fabrication method

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

The present invention concerns a bodily implantable or probe device and microelectrode fabrication method comprising providing at least one silicon substrate including an electronic device or unit; providing, on a first side of the silicon substrate, at le ...

2024

In vivo recording of visually evoked potentials with novel full diamond ECoG implants

Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda

Implantable neuroprosthetic devices such as electrocorticography (ECoG) and intracortical microelectrodes have the potential to restore neurological functions in disabled individuals. They constitute the direct interface with the body and require long term ...

2024

The role of the visual field size in artificial vision

Diego Ghezzi

Objective. Artificial vision has been and still is the subject of intense research. The ultimate goal is to help blind people in their daily life. Approaches to artificial vision, including visual prostheses and optogenetics, have strongly focused on resto ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

An Ultra-Miniaturised CMOS Clock and Data Recovery System for Wireless ASK Transmission

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

Over the years, several clock and data recovery architectures have been proposed for wireless Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) transmitted signals. State-of-the-art architectures mainly rely on synchronous phase-locked loop circuits or selfsampling systems, bo ...

IEEE2023

Changes Over Time in the Electrode/Brain Interface Impedance: An Ex-Vivo Study

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

Closed-loop neural implants based on continuous brain activity recording and intracortical microstimulation are extremely effective and promising devices to monitor and address many neurodegenerative diseases. The efficiency of these devices depends on the ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Engineering Materials for Neurotechnology

Diego Ghezzi

Neurotechnology applies methods and devices to mitigate the burden of neurological and mental disorders. In particular, neural interfaces establish a long-term, seamless, symbiotic integration between implants and neural tissue. Materials play a pivotal ro ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Locomotion of Sensor‐Integrated Soft Robotic Devices Inside Sub‐Millimeter Arteries with Impaired Flow Conditions

Lucio Feo Pancaldi-Giubbini, Lorenzo Francesco John Noseda, Diego Ghezzi, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Adele Fanelli, Amit Yedidia Dolev

One of the grand challenges in interventional cardiology and neuroradiology is to minimize the operation time and risk of damage during catheterization. These two factors drastically increase if the target location resides in small and tortuous vessels. Fl ...

Wiley2022

Editorial: Nanomaterials for Communicating With the Brain

Diego Ghezzi

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

POLYRETINA restores light responses in vivo in blind Gottingen minipigs

Charles-Henri Puncho Jérôme Vila, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger, Golnaz Sherafatipour

Retinal prostheses hold potential for artificial vision in blind people. Here, authors show that POLYRETINA, a large and high-density photovoltaic epiretinal device, restores light-evoked cortical responses in blind Gottingen minipigs at safe irradiance le ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Conformable neural interface based on off-stoichiometry thiol-ene-epoxy thermosets

Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda, Danashi Imani Medagoda, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Off-stoichiometry thiol-ene-epoxy (OSTE+) thermosets show low permeability to gases and little absorption of dissolved molecules, allow direct low-temperature dry bonding without surface treatments, have a low Young's modulus, and can be manufactured via U ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Virtual reality validation of naturalistic modulation strategies to counteract fading in retinal stimulation

Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Diego Ghezzi

Objective. Temporal resolution is a key challenge in artificial vision. Several prosthetic approaches are limited by the perceptual fading of evoked phosphenes upon repeated stimulation from the same electrode. Therefore, implanted patients are forced to p ...

2022

Three-dimensional multilayer concentric bipolar electrodes restrict spatial activation in optic nerve stimulation

Vivien Gaillet, Ricardo Camilo Moreira, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Objective. Intraneural nerve interfaces often operate in a monopolar configuration with a common and distant ground electrode. This configuration leads to a wide spreading of the electric field. Therefore, this approach is suboptimal for intraneural nerve ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Ultra-Miniaturised CMOS Current Driver for Wireless Biphasic Intracortical Microstimulation

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

This work shows an ultra-miniaturised and ultra-low-power CMOS current driver for biphasic intracortical microstimulation. The CMOS driver is composed of a leakage-based voltage-to-current converter and an H-bridge circuit providing biphasic charge-balance ...

IEEE2022

Advances in visual prostheses: engineering and biological challenges

Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda

Vision is an extraordinary sense through which we can appreciate the beauty of the world we live in, gain invaluable knowledge and communicate with others using visual expression and arts. On the contrary, blindness is a threatening medical condition disru ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

A 20 Mbps, 433 MHz RF ASK Transmitter to Inductively Power a Distributed Network of Miniaturised Neural Implants

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer is an emerging technique in neurotechnology. This work presents an efficient transmitter for both power transfer and downlink data communication to multiple, miniaturised and inductively-powered chips. W ...

IEEE2021

Transient electronics: new opportunities for implantable neurotechnology

Diego Ghezzi, Adele Fanelli

Neurotechnology includes artificial devices integrated with the neural tissue to mitigate the burden of neurological and mental disorders. This field has significantly expanded its range of applications thanks to the development of flexible, stretchable an ...

2021