Lightweight flexible keyboard with a conductive polymer-based touch sensor fabric

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 220, Issue , 2014, Pages 153-158

  Takamatsu, Seiichi ^a,b   Yamashita, Takahiro ^a,b   Imai, Takahiko ^b   Itoh, Toshihiro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b BEANS Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capacitive sensor; Flexible; Keyboard; PEDOT:PSS

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; FLEXIBLE; KEYBOARD; PEDOT:PSS; TOUCH SENSORS;

CAPACITIVE SENSORS;

EID: 84908371249     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2014.09.024     Document Type: Article

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