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Visual Stimulation Systems

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This chapter concerns trade-offs and design of implanted visual stimulation systems and the biochips used therein. The impacts on biochip design of biological intervention methods and overall systems architectures are discussed and a dual-module serial configured suprachoroidal visual stimulation system developed. Key biochip circuits for this system, implemented in a 0.35 μm high-voltage CMOS process, are described, and experimental results validating the electrical performance of the complete visual stimulation implant are presented.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, High St., 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Torsten Lehmann

  2. Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea

    Louis H. Jung

  3. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Gregg J. Suaning

  4. Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Nigel H. Lovell

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  1. Polytechnique Montreal Polystim Neurotechnologies Lab, Montreal, Québec, Canada

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Lehmann, T., Jung, L.H., Suaning, G.J., Lovell, N.H. (2015). Visual Stimulation Systems. In: Sawan, M. (eds) Handbook of Biochips. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6623-9_5-1

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