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Recent Developments for Flexible Pressure Sensors: A Review

Flexible pressure sensors are attracting great interest from researchers and are widely applied in various new electronic equipment because of their distinct characteristics with high flexibility, high sensitivity, and light weight; examples include electronic skin (E-skin) and wearable flexible sen...

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Autores principales: Xu, Fenlan, Li, Xiuyan, Shi, Yue, Li, Luhai, Wang, Wei, He, Liang, Liu, Ruping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405027
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi9110580
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author Xu, Fenlan
Li, Xiuyan
Shi, Yue
Li, Luhai
Wang, Wei
He, Liang
Liu, Ruping
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description Flexible pressure sensors are attracting great interest from researchers and are widely applied in various new electronic equipment because of their distinct characteristics with high flexibility, high sensitivity, and light weight; examples include electronic skin (E-skin) and wearable flexible sensing devices. This review summarizes the research progress of flexible pressure sensors, including three kinds of transduction mechanisms and their respective research developments, and applications in the fields of E-skin and wearable devices. Furthermore, the challenges and development trends of E-skin and wearable flexible sensors are also briefly discussed. Challenges of developing high extensibility, high sensitivity, and flexible multi-function equipment still exist at present. Exploring new sensing mechanisms, seeking new functional materials, and developing novel integration technology of flexible devices will be the key directions in the sensors field in future.
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spelling pubmed-62666712018-12-06 Recent Developments for Flexible Pressure Sensors: A Review Xu, Fenlan Li, Xiuyan Shi, Yue Li, Luhai Wang, Wei He, Liang Liu, Ruping Micromachines (Basel) Review Flexible pressure sensors are attracting great interest from researchers and are widely applied in various new electronic equipment because of their distinct characteristics with high flexibility, high sensitivity, and light weight; examples include electronic skin (E-skin) and wearable flexible sensing devices. This review summarizes the research progress of flexible pressure sensors, including three kinds of transduction mechanisms and their respective research developments, and applications in the fields of E-skin and wearable devices. Furthermore, the challenges and development trends of E-skin and wearable flexible sensors are also briefly discussed. Challenges of developing high extensibility, high sensitivity, and flexible multi-function equipment still exist at present. Exploring new sensing mechanisms, seeking new functional materials, and developing novel integration technology of flexible devices will be the key directions in the sensors field in future. MDPI 2018-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6266671/ /pubmed/30405027 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi9110580 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266671/
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