Ultra-sensitive graphene strain sensor for sound signal acquisition and recognition

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1627-1636

  Wang, Yan ^a,b   Yang, Tingting ^b   Lao, Junchao ^a,b   Zhang, Rujing ^b   Zhang, Yangyang ^b   Zhu, Miao ^b   Li, Xiao ^b   Zang, Xiaobei ^b   Wang, Kunlin ^b   Yu, Wenjian ^b   Jin, Hu ^c   Wang, Li ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^b  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c 2D Carbon Graphene Material Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

graphene; high sensitivity; sound detectors; strain sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939936248     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0652-3     Document Type: Article

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