Sensitivity of pressure sensors enhanced by doping silver nanowires

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 9889-9899

  Li, Baozhang ^a   Xu, Chengyi ^a   Zheng, Jianming ^a   Xu, Chunye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Electrospun; Flexible; High performance; Piezoelectricity; Pressure sensor; PVDF; phase

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; NANOSTRUCTURES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SILVER;

COMPOSITE NANOFIBERS; COSOLVENT MIXTURES; ELECTROSPUNS; FLEXIBLE; FLEXIBLE PRESSURE SENSORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE-TRIFLUOROETHYLENE); PVDF;

PRESSURE SENSORS;

EID: 84901992406     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140609889     Document Type: Article

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