Flexible technologies for self-powered wearable health and environmental sensing

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 665-681

  Misra, Veena ^a   Bozkurt, Alper ^a   Calhoun, Benton ^b   Jackson, Thomas ^c   Jur, Jesse ^d   Lach, John ^b   Lee, Bongmook ^c   Muth, John ^a   Oralkan, Omer ^a   Ozturk, Mehmet ^a   Trolier Mckinstry, Susan ^e   Vashaee, Daryoosh ^a   Wentzloff, David ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic layer deposition; CMUT; environmental monitoring; environmental sensor; flexible electrode; motion harvesting; physiological sensor; piezoelectric; PZT; selfpowered; silver nanowire; TEG; thermoelectrics; ultra low power; ultra low power SOC; volatile organic compound sensor; wearable device

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CMUT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; FLEXIBLE ELECTRODES; PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSORS; PIEZOELECTRIC; SELF-POWERED; SILVER NANOWIRES; THERMOELECTRICS; ULTRA LOW POWER; ULTRA-LOW-POWER SOC; WEARABLE DEVICES;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84930205795     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2412493     Document Type: Article

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