Mechanoelectrical force sensors using twisted yarns of carbon nanotubes

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 90-97

  Mirfakhrai, Tissaphern ^a   Oh, Jiyoung ^b   Kozlov, Mikhail E ^b   Fang, Shaoli ^b   Zhang, Mei ^c   Baughman, Ray H ^b   Madden, John D W ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon; electromechanical effects; nanotechnology; transducers

Indexed keywords

CELL CURRENT; ELECTROMECHANICAL EFFECTS; FORCE SENSOR; MECHANICAL FORCE SENSORS; MECHANICAL STRAIN; METAL FILM; OPEN-CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; TENSION FORCE;

FIBERS; GAGES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SENSORS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSDUCERS; WOOL; YARN;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 78651350990     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2091420     Document Type: Article

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