Encapsulation Technology

Customized Encapsulation Technology for your Implant

CorTec is offering a wide spectrum of services accompanying you all the way through the development of innovative technologies leading to an approved medical device in the end. Our CorTec Encapsulation Technologies enable us to develop customized solutions for your specific requirements. We offer hermetically sealed encapsulations as well as non-hermetic solutions, like overmoulding technologies.

Thanks to our development process and modern production technologies our team of highly skilled and experienced engineers can rapidly implement your design ideas and provide you with silicone moulding prototypes faster.

 

Hermetic Encapsulations

High Channel Count

Thick film technology enables hundreds of electrical feedthroughs — unlike conventional titanium packages with metal pin feedthroughs.

Electromagnetic Transparency

The ceramic encapsulation is transparent to electromagnetic waves facilitating communication via radio frequency or infrared as well as inductive powering.

Hermetic Packaging

Protection of electronics against moisture works 10 times longer compared to standard titanium packages — even for small implant volumes below 1 cm3.

Freedom of Design

CorTec´s ceramic encapsulations allow application-specific shapes and designs.

Non-Hermetic Encapsulations

Functionalization

Creation of electrical feedthroughs and insulating layers via hybrid thick film technology.

High Protection

Protecting the electronics from moisture via hermetic solder-sealing.

Biocompatibility

Ensure biocompatibility via customized, void-free silicone overmoulds, also offering low humidity levels due to low leak rates and application of water getters.

Freedom of Design

CorTec´s non-hermetic encapsulations allow application-specific shapes and designs.

Design Options

Dimensions

Geometry

  • Circular, oval, or rounded-edge rectangular designs
  • Ceramic packages are molded in silicone rubber in application-specific shapes

Dimensions

  • Minimum height: 2 mm
  • Variable lateral dimensions: maximum footprint of 80 mm x 80 mm

Feedthrough Dimensions and Spacing

  • Feedthroughs come as metal tracks on ceramic base substrate
  • Minimum track width: 0.08 mm
  • Minimum pitch: 0.2 mm
  • Minimum pad area: 0.1 mm x 0.5 mm

Sealing

Hermetic Sealing in Controlled Helium Environment

  • Elaborated cleaning & drying procedure minimizes trapping of water molecules inside the package before sealing
  • Packages are sealed in 100% helium atmosphere permitting the best possible lifetime prediction based on helium leakage measurements

Customized Telemetric Coils

  • Hand-crafted high precision coils
  • Materials: Gold or copper
  • Up to 50 windings
  • Adaptation to the needs of customer-specific inductive power and data interfaces

Medical Grade Silicone Rubber Shell

  • Customized void-free silicone molding
  • Structural and surface biocompatibility

Connection to other products

  • AirRay™ electrodes
  • Commercially available implantable connectors

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More technical Information

Materials

In Contact with the Body

  • Smooth implant shell and cables made of medical grade silicone rubber.
  • All other materials such as the ceramic encapsulation, the feedthroughs, and the metal seal for the package are covered by this silicone shell.

Performance

Helium fine leak testing for hermeticity:

Extremely low leak rates qualify our packages for rejection thresholds below 10(-10) mbar l s(-1).

 

Related Services

  • Device design and preliminary studies
  • Tests and validations incl. technical documentation
  • Assembly and packaging of customer electronics
  • Interconnection technologies
  • Functionality testing
  • Hermeticity qualification (He-leak testing)
  • Customized silicone rubber mold design and processing
  • Validated cleaning procedures

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We’re happy to help you realize your next project. Whether it is a complete implantable system design, an electrode or another component.

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SPECIFICATIONS

FEATURE 

Recording channels 

Sampling rate 

Sampling dynamic range 

High pass filter cut-off 

Low pass filter cut-off 

Amplifier band pass gain 

Band pass roll-off 

Reference


Stimulation 

Stimulation channels 

Current 

Current source 

Pulse width 

Power supply 

Wireless data transmission 

Closed Loop latency

VALUE

32 

1 kHz 

16 bit (74 nV smallest increment) 

ca. 2 Hz 

325 Hz 

Adjustable: 100-750 

20 dB/dec 

Any (subset) of the recording channels selectable by software or one dedicated hard-wired additional contact 

Current-controlled, biphasic, rectangular, asymmetric stimulus pulses (cathodic amplitude with pulse width followed by an anodic counter pulse of 1/4x amplitude and 4x pulse width) 

 32 

Max. -6 mA / +1.5 mA (24 µA increments) within

 compliance voltage range of -11 V to +5 V 

Can be directed to any of the 32 electrode contacts 

Negative phase: 10 µs – 2,500 µs

Wireless inductive, 120-140 kHz

Bi-directional, radio frequency in 2400-2483.5 MHz band ≤ 40 ms