Piezoresistive sensors for smart textiles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6524, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Calvert, Paul ^a   Patra, Prabir ^a   Lo, Te Chen ^b   Chen, Chi H ^b   Sawhney, Amit ^a   Agrawal, Animesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Conducting polymer; Smart textiles; Strain gauges

Indexed keywords

FABRIC STRUCTURES; INKJET PRINTING; SMART TEXTILES; TWISTED MULTIFILAMENT YARNS;

INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; PRINTING; SENSORS; TEXTILES; YARN;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

INK JET PRINTING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSORS; TEXTILES;

EID: 35148872632     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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