A new approach for modeling piezoresistive force sensors based on semiconductive polymer composites

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 572-581

  Kalantari, Masoud ^a,b   Dargahi, Javad ^a   Kövecses, Jozsef ^b   Mardasi, Mahmood Ghanbari ^a   Nouri, Shahrzad ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical transducers; piezoresistive devices; semiconductor device modeling; semiconductor materials measurements

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TRANSDUCERS; CARBON PARTICLE; CREEP BEHAVIORS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FORCE SENSOR; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; PIEZO-RESISTIVE BEHAVIOR; PIEZORESISTIVE DEVICES; PIEZORESISTIVE FORCE SENSORS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; RESISTANCE CURVES; SEMICONDUCTIVE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELING; THEORETICAL FORMULATION;

BIOSENSORS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYMERS; SENSORS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 84860692709     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2108664     Document Type: Article

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