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Cornell-linked optical microimplant work connects CMOS circuits, nanofabrication, optical telemetry and cortical measurements, with international and US collaborators named by the 2025 paper.

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Cornell MOTE neurotechnology collaboration

Official site → Ithaca, NY, USA

MOTE · Cornell · optical · wireless · recording · preclinical
Last reviewed against public sources: Oct 7, 2026

Cornell-linked MOTE collaboration

This brief covers the collaboration behind the 2025 MOTE recorder, not a single company or one laboratory owning all parts of the system. The separate mouse application preserves the cohort and chronic-recording limits.

Grounded institutional roles

The primary paper lists Cornell affiliations across electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, physics, applied and engineering physics, psychology, computer science and neurobiology. Alyosha Molnar is affiliated with electrical and computer engineering, Paul McEuen with physics, Chris Xu with applied and engineering physics, and Jan Lammerding with biomedical engineering and the Weill Institute. Those are the paper’s institutional affiliations, not inferred ownership of each device component.

Cornell’s November 2025 report names Alyosha Molnar and Sunwoo Lee as co-leads and describes Lee’s earlier postdoctoral work in Molnar’s lab. The primary paper lists Lee with Nanyang Technological University and KAIST. It also lists Boston University and University of Arizona collaborators. This is US-linked catalog coverage without relabeling every author as Cornell staff.

Scope of the work

MOTE combines a CMOS electrical recorder with an AlGaAs photovoltaic/LED element, compact encapsulation and optical telemetry. The paper demonstrates surface and shallow intracortical mouse measurements under a cranial window. It reports one weakened, averaged LFP response at day 365, alongside failed devices and implant drift. The result is not a human product, clinical trial or approval.

No commercialization, company affiliation, exclusive licence, funding award or principal-investigator role is added without a corresponding source. No new map coordinate is inferred from a campus address; the brief identifies Ithaca without inventing a specific laboratory location.

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