Screen-printed resistive pressure sensors containing graphene nanoplatelets and carbon nanotubes

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 17304-17312

  Janczak, Daniel ^a   Słoma, Marcin ^a,b   Wróblewski, Grzegorz ^a   Młożniak, Anna ^b   Jakubowska, Małgorzata ^a,b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Graphene nanoplatelets; Nanomaterials; Pressure sensors; Printed electronics; Screen printing

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PRESSURE SENSORS; SCREEN PRINTING;

GRAPHENE NANOPLATELETS; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; SCREEN-PRINTED;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84907222535     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140917304     Document Type: Article

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