[11p-Z13-1~18] 12.1 Fabrications and Structure Controls

[11p-Z13-15] Bacteriorhodopsin artificial vision function devices fabricated by inkjet printing (5)

Kazuya Shomura¹, 〇Hiroyuki Hasegawa^1,2, Katsuyuki Kasai², Toshiki Yamada², Shukichi Tanaka², Yoshiko Okada³, Akira Otomo² (1.Shimane Univ., 2.NICT, 3.UEC)

Keywords:Bacteriorhodopsin, Artificial visual function, Inkjet technique

In this research, we have focused on the development of a biomimetic artificial visual function device using bacteriorhodopsin. In the previous study, we have succeeded in inkjet patterning of bacteriorhodopsin using a material printer, and reported on an attempt to fabricate devices. Using this technology, we are trying to fabricate a visual information processing device. This time, we focused on the Gabor filter among the visual functions, and optimized the current response by making it and using a overlayed film. Current response which was good agreement with the original function was obtained for both sin- and cos-type Gabor filters.