Woven temperature and humidity sensors on flexible plastic substrates for e-textile applications

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3901-3909

  Mattana, Giorgio ^a   Kinkeldei, Thomas ^b   Leuenberger, David ^c   Ataman, Caglar ^a   Ruan, Jinyu J ^a   Molina Lopez, Francisco ^a   Quintero, Andrés Vásquez ^a   Nisato, Giovanni ^c   Tröster, Gerhard ^b   Briand, Danick ^a   De Rooij, Nico F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

E textiles; humidity and temperature sensors; inkjet printing; plastic and flexible substrates; wearable electronics

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; E-TEXTILES; FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; STANDARD LITHOGRAPHIES; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY SENSOR; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS;

FABRICATION; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; HUMIDITY SENSORS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PRINTING; TEXTILES;

WEAVING;

EID: 84883790421     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2257167     Document Type: Article

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