Polymerie sensors to monitor cockroach locomotion

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1698-1702

  Lee, Hyungoo ^b   Cooper, Rodrigo ^b   Mika, Bartosz ^b   Clayton, David ^b   Garg, Rajesh ^a,c   González, Jorge M ^b   Vinson, S Bradleigh ^b   Khatri, Sunil ^a,c   Liang, Hong ^b  

^a IEEE

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological sensors; Cockroaches; Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) sensors

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; GOLD; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COCKROACHES; POLYMERIC SENSOR; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE (PVDF);

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 35648946827     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.909624     Document Type: Article

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