The team plans to use the same high frequency recordings
from smaller electrodes to answer this question.
Not exact matches
Usually, in
small - molecule junctions, electrons «pushed» through the junction by the applied bias make the leap continuously,
from one
electrode into the other, so that the number of electrons on the molecule at each instant of time is not well - defined.
A
small electrical voltage applied to one
electrode — called the «gate» — increases the electrical conductivity between two other
electrodes, allowing a large current to flow
from one to the other.
Immersed in a
small tank of sugar water, the microbes settled on the
electrode and got busy, extracting electrons
from the sugar and dropping them directly on the
electrode, which fed an external circuit: Voilà, electricity.
Wires lead
from the
electrodes to a
small rectangular neurostimulator device inserted in Summers» lower back.
Neurosurgeons attached the
electrode array, called BrainGate, to a
small pedestal on top of each patient's head,
from which wires stretch to a computer.
Meanwhile, Dioxide Materials has scaled up the size of their
electrodes from squares
smaller than a U.S. postage stamp to ones bigger than an adult hand, enabling a larger CO flux.
The signals picked up by scalp
electrodes are comparatively
small and diffuse, and arise almost entirely
from the cerebral cortex — the hippocampus is too
small and too deeply buried to generate recognizable scalp EEG signals.