Self-powered thin-film motion vector sensor

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jing, Qingshen ^a,b   Xie, Yannan ^b   Zhu, Guang ^b,c   Han, Ray P S ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; POLITEF; POLYIMIDE;

ARRAY; BIOFILM; COPPER; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ETHYLENE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; SIGNAL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; FILM; KINEMATICS; MATERIAL COATING; MEASUREMENT; SENSOR;

EID: 84939440424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9031     Document Type: Article

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