Flexible pressure sensors: Modeling and experimental characterization

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 1177-1180

  Sepulveda A T ^a   De Villoria, R Guzmán ^b,c   Viana, J C ^a   Pontes, A J ^a   Wardle, B L ^c   A, L A Rocha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b IMDEA MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible sensors; Modeling; Nanocomposites; Pressure sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878120544     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.09.361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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