Flexible electronics sensors for tactile multi-touching

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1188-1203

  Chang, Wen Yang ^a,b   Fang, Te Hua ^c   Yeh, Shao Hsing ^b   Lin, Yu Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bending; Flexible electronics; Large area; Multi touching; Organic resistance; Printing technology; Tactile

Indexed keywords

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION; LARGE AREA; LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING; MULTI-TOUCHING; POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATE; PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES; TACTILE;

BENDING (FORMING); FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; MANUFACTURE; POLYIMIDES; PRINTING;

SENSORS;

EID: 63849291022     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s9021188     Document Type: Article

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