Self-powered, ultrasensitive, flexible tactile sensors based on contact electrification

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3208-3213

  Zhu, Guang ^a,c   Yang, Wei Qing ^a,b   Zhang, Tiejun ^a   Jing, Qingshen ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Zhou, Yu Sheng ^a   Bai, Peng ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Contact electrification; flexible electronics; self powered electronics; tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; NANOWIRES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTACT ELECTRIFICATION; EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLIES; FLEXIBLE TACTILE SENSORS; PRESSURE SENSITIVITIES; SELF-POWERED; SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUITS; TACTILE SENSING; TACTILE SENSING SYSTEM;

SENSORS;

NANOWIRE;

COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; PRESSURE;

HUMANS; NANOWIRES; PRESSURE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84902254803     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl5005652     Document Type: Article

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