The ability to amplify, translate, and process small
ionic potential fluctuations of neural processes directly at the recording site
is essential to improve the performance of neural implants. Organic front-end
analog electronics are ideal for this application, allowing for minimally
invasive amplifiers owing to their tissue-like mechanical properties. Here, we
demonstrate fully organic complementary circuits by pairing depletion- and
enhancement-mode p- and n-type organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs).
With precise geometry tuning and a vertical device architecture, we achieve
overlapping output characteristics and integrate them into amplifiers with
single neuronal dimensions (20 micrometers). Amplifiers with combined p- and
n-OECTs result in voltage-to-voltage amplification with a gain of >30
decibels. We also leverage depletion and enhancement-mode p-OECTs with matching
characteristics to demonstrate a differential recording capability with high
common mode rejection rate (>60 decibels). Integrating OECT-based front-end
amplifiers into a flexible shank form factor enables single-neuron recording in
the mouse cortex with on-site filtering and amplification.