Paper Info
Title
A Transparent Strain Sensor Based on PDMS-Embedded Conductive Fabric for Wearable Sensing Applications.
Abstract
In this paper, we present a new approach to realize flexible transparent strain sensors. It combines the use of transparent conductive fabric with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) through a simple and straightforward layer-by-layer assembly process. The conductive fabric is used to realize the transparent electrodes while the PDMS is utilized as both the substrate and encapsulation layers. As a concept demonstration, an interdigital capacitive sensor is designed and fabricated using the proposed approach. The fabricated sensor is then characterized in terms of its transparency and electro-mechanical nature. This is followed by the application of the sensor in several physiological sensing scenarios, including the sensing of various body-part movements and tactile sensing. Apart from a high optical transparency (similar to 70%), the sensor shows promising sensing results which validate the applicability of the proposed approach for realization of flexible and transparent strain sensors for wearable sensing applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2881463
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Capacitive sensors,conductive fabric,flexible sensors,interdigital,polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS),transparent,wearable
Transparency (graphic),Polydimethylsiloxane,Strain sensor,Computer science,Electrical conductor,Capacitive sensing,Optoelectronics,Encapsulation (computer programming),Electrode,Distributed computing,Wearable sensing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anindya Nag102.03
Roy Simorangkir201.35
Elizabeth Valentin300.34
Toni Björninen49714.77
Leena Ukkonen57021.48
Raheel M. Hashmi622.61
S. C. Mukhopadhyay727045.51