Hybrid electrical device with biological components

US6703660B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD. · IL

Inventors

• Shlomo Yitzchaik · Evanston, US
• Joseph Shappir · Jerusalem, IL
• Micha Spira · Jerusalem, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 9, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10B41/40
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention concerns an electrical junction between one transistor and at least one voltage sensitive cell such as a neuron. The invention further concerns transistors to be used in said junction and methods for their preparation. By another aspect the invention concerns “an artificial chemical synapse” i.e. a junction between a cell, which secretes an agent, and a transistor bearing receptors for the agent, wherein binding of the agent to the receptor changes an electrical property off the transistor.