Approaching integrated hybrid neural circuits: Axon guiding on optically active semiconductor microtube arrays. An array of optically active semiconductor microtubes is utilized to build highly defined neural networks enabling a remote optical detection of action potentials via changing electric field during propagation of action potentials. The axons in the tubes are detected via a confocal microscope.
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