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Translation of a photovoltaic retinal prosthesis

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A silicon-based photovoltaic subretinal prosthesis triggers behavioural responses to pulsed near-infrared light in awake macaques.

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Fig. 1: Assessment of a photovoltaic retinal implant in non-human primates.

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  1. Medtronic Chair in Neuroengineering, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland

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Ghezzi, D. Translation of a photovoltaic retinal prosthesis. Nat Biomed Eng 4, 137–138 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-0520-2

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