Development of a conformable electronic skin based on silver nanowires and PDMS

4th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials and Manufacturing Engineering 2017

材料科学;化学

Wang, Haopeng^1

Information Science Academy, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing

100086, China^1

关键词: Conductive rubber;    Conductor strips;    Contact pressures;    Data acquisition system;    Different shapes;    Fabricated sensors;    Sensing elements;    Silver nanowires;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/207/1/012040/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/207/1/012040

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper presented the designed and tested a flexible and stretchable pressure sensor array that could be used to cover 3D surface to measure contact pressure. The sensor array is laminated into a thin film with 1 mm in thickness and can easily be stretched without losing its functionality. The fabricated sensor array contained 8×8 sensing elements, each could measure the pressure up to 180 kPa. An improved sandwich structure is used to build the sensor array. The upper and lower layers were PDMS thin films embedded with conductor strips formed by PDMS-based silver nanowires (AgNWs) networks covered with nano-scale thin metal film. The middle layer was formed a porous PDMS film inserted with circular conductive rubber. The sensor array could detect the contact pressure within 30% stretching rate. In this paper, the performance of the pressure sensor array was systematically studied. With the corresponding scanning power-supply circuit and data acquisition system, it is demonstrated that the system can successfully capture the tactile images induced by objects of different shapes. Such sensor system could be applied on complex surfaces in robots or medical devices for contact pressure detection and feedback.