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High-Performance Flexible Dual-Mode Sensor Array Based on Fully Inkjet-Printed Electrode for Electronic Skin

Wednesday, 3 October 2018: 17:00
Universal 17 (Expo Center)
K. Kim, M. Jung (Korea Univ.), and S. Jeon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Electronic skin, which consists of various functional sensor arrays and can be applied to robot and wearable human-machine interfacing devices by mimicking the functions of human skin, requires flexibility, multifunctional mode, and high-sensitivity. Here, we developed a high-sensitivity, and high-reliability flexible dual-mode sensor with inkjet printable electrode material comprised of organic conductor-elastomer-metal nanoparticles. These involved vertically stacked sensors that utilize different sensing principles, thus enabling the realization of a dual-mode sensor with negligible interference. The pressure sensor has a high sensitivity over a wide-range (3Pa–5kPa), a fast response time (20ms), excellent reliability characteristics (100,000cycles) and a low operating voltage (0.5mV). The temperature sensor with a long bent organic conductor-metal line formed by the inkjet process can distinguish a temperature difference of 0.5 °C, and has a temperature sensitivity of 0.32% per °C. In addition, we demonstrated a dual-mode sensor with a 5×5 array structure that responded quickly and precisely in real-time, without interference effect. The low-resistivity and high-reliability flexible electrode and device structure used in this study are expected to be widely used in the future of soft touch displays, medical devices, and robotic applications.