User-interactive electronic skin for instantaneous pressure visualization

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 899-904

  Wang, Chuan ^a,b,c,d   Hwang, David ^a,b,c   Yu, Zhibin ^a,b,c   Takei, Kuniharu ^a,b,c   Park, Junwoo ^c   Chen, Teresa ^c   Ma, Biwu ^c   Javey, Ali ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATRIX ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; INSTANTANEOUS PRESSURES; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; RED , GREEN AND BLUES; THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFTS);

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PRESSURE SENSORS; USER INTERFACES;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84884587418     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3711     Document Type: Review

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