Enhanced pressure & proximity sensitivities of a flexible transparent capacitive sensor with PZT nanowires

3rd International Conference on New Material and Chemical Industry

材料科学;化学工业

Pang, L.^1 ; Zhao, Q.L.^1 ; Sheng, T.Y.^1 ; He, G.P.^1 ; Di, J.J.^1 ; Su, T.T.^1 ; Tan, P.P.^1

School of Mechanical and Material Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing

100144, China^1

关键词: Capacitive pressure;    Distance Monitoring;    High dielectric constants;    Human Machine Interface;    Polydimethylsiloxane PDMS;    Pressure sensitivities;    Quantitative monitoring;    Single crystal nanowires;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/479/1/012035/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/479/1/012035

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Capacitive pressure & proximity multi-function sensors are wildly used in applications such as 3D touch screen and electronic skin. However, those sensors could not meet rigorous requirement for accurate quantitative monitoring due to the lower permittivity of the dielectric material. Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 (PZT) material is featured in remarkably high dielectric constant. Here in this work, we present a flexible, transparent capacitive proximity & pressure multi-function sensor with PZT single crystal nanowires (NWs) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite as dielectric layer. Experimental results confirmed the perovskite lattice structure. The length of the nanowires is about 50-100 μm, with diameter in magnitude of hundred nanometers. The sensor with PZT NWs could yield excellent pressure sensitivity for nearly 89 MPa-1, which is about 10 times larger than that of the one only with PDMS dielectric layer. The proximity sensing property was also improved with adding PZT NWs in PDMS dielectric layer. Therefore, the performance of our sensor was significantly improved by the utilization of PZT NWs. And such kind of techniques could also be contributed to the development of practical applications like human-machine interface and distance monitoring systems.