Highly Sensitive and Stretchable Multidimensional Strain Sensor with Prestrained Anisotropic Metal Nanowire Percolation Networks

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5240-5247

  Kim, Kyun Kyu ^a   Hong, Sukjoon ^a   Cho, Hyun Min ^a   Lee, Jinhwan ^a   Suh, Young Duk ^a   Ham, Jooyeun ^b   Ko, Seung Hwan ^a  

^a Gwanak gu   (South Korea)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropic resistance change; multiaxis strain sensor; nanowire percolation network; stretchable electronics

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; NANOWIRES; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SOLVENTS;

ANISOTROPIC METALS; ELECTRICAL RESPONSE; PERCOLATION NETWORKS; RESISTANCE CHANGE; SILVER NANOWIRES; STRAIN SENSORS; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS; WEARABLE DEVICES;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84939193329     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01505     Document Type: Article

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