Organic bendable and stretchable field effect devices for sensing applications

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4764-4772

  Loi, Alberto ^a   Basiricò, Laura ^a   Cosseddu, Piero ^a   Lai, Stefano ^a   Barbaro, Massimo ^a   Bonfiglio, Annalisa ^a   Maiolino, Perla ^b   Baglini, Emanuele ^b   Denei, Simone ^b   Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio ^b   Cannata, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bio parameters monitoring; Inkjet printing; OFETs; Robot skin; Strain sensors

Indexed keywords

FIELD-EFFECT DEVICES; FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; OFETS; ROBOT SKIN; SENSING APPLICATIONS; STRAIN SENSORS; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS;

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 84885937343     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2273173     Document Type: Article

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