A flexible capacitive tactile sensing array with floating electrodes

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Cheng, M Y ^a   Huang, X H ^a   Ma, C W ^a   Yang, Y J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; CAPACITIVE SENSING; DEVICE STRUCTURES; FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; FLOATING ELECTRODES; MEMS FABRICATION TECHNIQUES; MICROMACHINED; POLYDIMETHLYSILOXANE; SENSING ELECTRODE; SIGNAL SCANNING; TACTILE IMAGES; TACTILE SENSING ARRAYS;

MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SILICONES;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 70350647512     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/19/11/115001     Document Type: Article

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