Self-powered tactile pressure sensors using ordered crystalline ZnO nanorods on flexible substrates toward robotic skin and garments

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 63-70

  Nabar, Bhargav P ^b   Celik Butler, Zeynep ^a   Butler, Donald P ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanoimprint lithography; Robotic skin; Tactile pressure sensor; ZnO nanorods

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; ROBOTIC SKIN; SELF-POWERED; TACTILE PRESSURE SENSOR; ZNO NANOROD;

NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY;

EID: 84910030992     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2337115     Document Type: Article

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