EHD printing of PEDOT: PSS inks for fabricating pressure and strain sensor arrays on flexible substrates

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9494, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nothnagle, Caleb ^a   Baptist, Joshua R ^b   Sanford, Joe ^b   Lee, Woo Ho ^b   Popa, Dan O ^a,b   Wijesundara, Muthu B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrohydrodynamic; inkjet; PEDOT: PSS; piezoresistive sensor; printing; Robot; skin; tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENDING TESTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; FABRICATION; INK; PRINTING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SKIN; SUBSTRATES;

HUMAN-ROBOTIC INTERACTION; INKJET; PEDOT:PSS; PIEZO-RESISTIVE SENSORS; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE); SEMI-CONDUCTOR FABRICATION; STRAIN SENSOR APPLICATIONS; TACTILE SENSORS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84938702124     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2177415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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