scholarly journals Recent Progress in Conducting Polymer Composite/Nanofiber-Based Strain and Pressure Sensors

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 4281
Author(s):  
Loganathan Veeramuthu ◽  
Manikandan Venkatesan ◽  
Jean-Sebastien Benas ◽  
Chia-Jung Cho ◽  
Chia-Chin Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Conducting Polymers ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Electrospinning Process ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Sensing Range ◽  
Sensor Fabrication ◽  
Composite Nanofiber ◽  
Recent Trends

The Conducting of polymers belongs to the class of polymers exhibiting excellence in electrical performances because of their intrinsic delocalized π- electrons and their tunability ranges from semi-conductive to metallic conductive regime. Conducting polymers and their composites serve greater functionality in the application of strain and pressure sensors, especially in yielding a better figure of merits, such as improved sensitivity, sensing range, durability, and mechanical robustness. The electrospinning process allows the formation of micro to nano-dimensional fibers with solution-processing attributes and offers an exciting aspect ratio by forming ultra-long fibrous structures. This review comprehensively covers the fundamentals of conducting polymers, sensor fabrication, working modes, and recent trends in achieving the sensitivity, wide-sensing range, reduced hysteresis, and durability of thin film, porous, and nanofibrous sensors. Furthermore, nanofiber and textile-based sensory device importance and its growth towards futuristic wearable electronics in a technological era was systematically reviewed to overcome the existing challenges.

Recent Progress in Design of Plasmonic Thin-Film Solar Cells with Enhanced Efficiency

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifang Si ◽  
Teng Qiu ◽  
Wenjun Zhang ◽  
Paul K. Chu
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells

scholarly journals Recent progress in thin film organic photodiodes

2001 ◽  
Vol 121 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1525-1528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olle Inganäs ◽  
Lucimara S. Roman ◽  
Fengling Zhang ◽  
D.M. Johansson ◽  
M.R. Andersson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Recent Progress

Organic–inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites for optoelectronic and electronic applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yixin Zhao ◽  
Kai Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Optical Properties ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Inorganic Hybrid ◽  
Halide Perovskites ◽  
Film Synthesis ◽  
Lead Halide

This article reviews recent progress on hybrid perovskites including crystal/thin-film synthesis, structural/chemical/electro-optical properties, (opto)electronic applications, and research issues/challenges.

Multi length scale hierarchical architecture overcoming pressure sensing range-speed tradeoff for flexible pressure sensors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiong Tian ◽  
Wenrong Yan ◽  
Tianding CHEN ◽  
Derek Ho
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Human Machine Interface ◽  
Hierarchical Architecture ◽  
Soft Robotics ◽  
Length Scale ◽  
Pressure Sensing ◽  
Sensing Range ◽  
Machine Interface ◽  
Flexible Pressure Sensors

Pressure sensing electronics have gained great attention in human-machine interface, soft robotics, and wearable biomedical applications. However, existing sensor architectures are inadequate in overcoming the classic tradeoff between sensing range,...

scholarly journals Breathable Materials for Triboelectric Effect-Based Wearable Electronics

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congju Li ◽  
Ran Cao ◽  
Xiuling Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Recent Progress ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Metal Mesh ◽  
Frictional Materials ◽  
Nanofiber Membranes ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Triboelectric Effect

Wearable electronics are believed to be the future of the next-generation electric devices. However, the comfort of current wearable devices is greatly limited due to the use of airtight materials, which may even lead to inflammation of the skin. Therefore, breathable, skin-friendly materials, are highly desired for wearable devices. Here, the recent progress of the breathable materials used to fabricate skin-friendly electronics is reviewed by taking triboelectric effect-based wearable electronics as a typical example. Fibers, yarns, textiles, and nanofiber membranes are the most popular dielectric materials that serve as frictional materials. Metal mesh, silver yarn, and conductive networks made up of nanomaterial are preferred as air-permissive electrodes. The breathable materials for skin-friendly wearable electronics summarized in this review provide valuable references for future fabrication of humanized wearable devices and hold great significance for the practical application of wearable devices.

1/f Noise Behavior in Pentacene Organic Thin Film Transistors

1999 ◽  
Vol 598 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. V. Necliudov ◽  
D. J. Gundlach ◽  
T. N. Jackson ◽  
S. L. Rumyantsev ◽  
M. S. Shur
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Conducting Polymers ◽  
Thin Film Transistors ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Drain Current ◽  
Frequency Noise ◽  
Organic Thin Film ◽  
Amorphous Si ◽  
Parameter Values ◽  
Device Noise

ABSTRACTWe studied the low frequency noise in top-contact pentacene Thin Film Transistors (TFTs). The relative spectral noise density of the drain current fluctuations SI/I2 had a form of 1/f noise in the measured frequency range 1Hz - 3.5kHz.Our studies of the noise dependencies on the gate-source VGS and drain-source VDS voltages showed that the dependencies differed from those observed for conducting polymers and resembled those reported for crystalline Si n-MOSFETs.To compare the device noise level with those of other devices and materials, we extracted the Hooge parameter α. In order to calculate the total number of carriers we used a model simulating the device DC characteristics, similar to that for amorphous Si TFTs. The extracted Hooge parameter was 0.04. For an organic material this is an extremely small value, which is three orders of magnitude smaller that the Hooge parameter values reported for conducting polymers and only several times higher than the values for amorphous Si TFTs.

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