Large‐Area Compliant Tactile Sensors Using Printed Carbon Nanotube Active‐Matrix Backplanes
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A 20 × 20 pixel pressure sensor array based on a printed active-matrix single-wall carbon-nanotube thin-film transistor backplane is presented. Using a gravure printing process that is compatible with fully printed large-area roll-to-roll processing, a 97% device yield is obtained on the 400-transistor backplane. As a proof of concept, pressure sensors are integrated to map the applied tactile pressure across the array.
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In nanomaterial-enabled active matrix pressure sensing, nanomaterials such as Ge/Si NWs or semiconducting CNTs can be employed as the channel material for the transistor.
“In nanomaterial-enabled active matrix pressure sensing, nanomaterials such as Ge/Si NWs [85] or semiconducting CNTs, [63,64,84] can be employed as the channel material for the transistor.”
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- Authors
- Yeom, C., Chen, K., Kiriya, D., Yu, Z., Cho, G., & Javey, A.
- Affiliations
- Sunchon National University (KR)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cho, Gyoujin
- Javey, Ali
- Venue
- Advanced Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-01-14
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1561-1566
- ISSN
- 0935-9648 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-4095
- OpenAlex
- W2100561453
- Cited by
- 236
- References
- 36
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- FWCI
- 13.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advanced Materials (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Sunchon National University
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Keywords
- tactile sensors, pressure sensors, single-walled carbon nanotubes, active-matrix backplanes, thin-film transistors, gravure printing, roll-to-roll processing, printed electronics, device yield, pressure mapping
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