FLAMENCO: A fully implantable MEMS based cochlear implant

FLAMENCO is the new project I am engaged in as a researcher and a team leader. You can visit FLAMENCO (click)

We are a multidisciplinary and multinational team of enthusiastic engineers (researcher and students) and doctors (Audiology) and we are dedicating our time to make the lives of hearing impaired easier. We posses knowledge of electronics, materials systems, mechanics, bio-mechanics and medicine. Provided that the project becomes successful in a  short while it will help people in multiple ways.

The research is conducted at the METU-MEMS center (50 Million US$) with clean room and research capacity that is at the international level. We use microfabrication tools to produce microscale devices and combine them with ICs to process the analog signals and turn them into the digital ones.

Figure below illustrates the IC fixed on a flexible substrate that connects and regulates the signals of the sensor to the electrodes placed in the ear.