A flexible liquid crystal polymer MEMS pressure sensor array for fish-like underwater sensing

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Kottapalli, A G P ^a   Asadnia, M ^a   Miao, J M ^a   Barbastathis, G ^b   Triantafyllou, M S ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; CURVED SURFACES; FLOW SENSING; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIGHT WEIGHT; OBJECT DETECTION; POLYMER MEMS; POLYMER MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PRESSURE SENSITIVITIES; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; ROBUST SENSING; SENSING MEMBRANES; SENSORY SYSTEM; TRANSDUCING; UNDERWATER ANIMALS; UNDERWATER OBJECTS; UNDERWATER SURVEILLANCE; WATER FLOWS; WATER TUNNEL;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FISH; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MEMS; SENSORS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 84868566166     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/11/115030     Document Type: Article

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