A Flexible Proximity Sensor Fully Fabricated by Inkjet Printing

  • Chin-Tsan Wang
    Department of Mechanical and Electromechanical Engineering, National ILan University, ILan 260, Taiwan
  • Kuo-Yi Huang
    Department of Mechatronic Engineering, Huafan University, Taipei 223, Taiwan
  • David T. W. Lin
    Graduate Institute of Mechatronic System Engineering, National University of Tainan, Tainan 70005, Taiwan
  • Wei-Chia Liao
    Department of Mechanical and Electromechanical Engineering, National ILan University, ILan 260, Taiwan
  • Hua-Wei Lin
    Department of Mechanical and Electromechanical Engineering, National ILan University, ILan 260, Taiwan
  • Yuh-Chung Hu
    Department of Mechanical and Electromechanical Engineering, National ILan University, ILan 260, Taiwan

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公開日
2010-05-19
権利情報
  • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
DOI
  • 10.3390/s100505054
公開者
MDPI AG

説明

<jats:p>A flexible proximity sensor fully fabricated by inkjet printing is proposed in this paper. The flexible proximity sensor is composed of a ZnO layer sandwiched in between a flexible aluminum sheet and a web-shaped top electrode layer. The flexible aluminum sheet serves as the bottom electrode. The material of the top electrode layer is nano silver. Both the ZnO and top electrode layers are deposited by inkjet printing. The fully inkjet printing process possesses the advantages of direct patterning and low-cost. It does not require photolithography and etching processes since the pattern is directly printed on the flexible aluminum sheet. The prototype demonstrates that the presented flexible sensor is sensitive to the human body. It may be applied to proximity sensing or thermal eradiation sensing.</jats:p>

収録刊行物

  • Sensors

    Sensors 10 (5), 5054-5062, 2010-05-19

    MDPI AG

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