Add shank thickness to the Neuropixels probe annotations - #467
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The Pinpoint developers asked for the shank thickness to draw probes in 3D (SpikeInterface/probeinterface_library#73). imec's probe features table already has
shank_thickness_umfor every part number, butbuild_neuropixels_probeonly uses the shank width and tip length to draw the contour and drops the thickness.This PR stores it as a
shank_thickness_umannotation, keeping imec's name and unit. Whether thickness should become a schema field for all manufacturers is discussed in #452.