Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer
Electronic skin made of thin, soft, stretchable devices that can mimic the human skin and reconstruct the tactile sensation and perception offers great opportunities for prosthesis sensing, robotics controlling, and human-machine interfaces. Advanced materials and mechanics engineering of thin film...
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| author | Yiming Liu Huanxi Zheng Ling Zhao Shiyuan Liu Kuanming Yao Dengfeng Li Chunki Yiu Shenghan Gao Raudel Avila Pakpong Chirarattananon Lingqian Chang Zuankai Wang Xian Huang Zhaoqian Xie Zhengbao Yang Xinge Yu |
| author_facet | Yiming Liu Huanxi Zheng Ling Zhao Shiyuan Liu Kuanming Yao Dengfeng Li Chunki Yiu Shenghan Gao Raudel Avila Pakpong Chirarattananon Lingqian Chang Zuankai Wang Xian Huang Zhaoqian Xie Zhengbao Yang Xinge Yu |
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| description | Electronic skin made of thin, soft, stretchable devices that can mimic the human skin and reconstruct the tactile sensation and perception offers great opportunities for prosthesis sensing, robotics controlling, and human-machine interfaces. Advanced materials and mechanics engineering of thin film devices has proven to be an efficient route to enable and enhance flexibility and stretchability of various electronic skins; however, the density of devices is still low owing to the limitation in existing fabrication techniques. Here, we report a high-throughput one-step process to fabricate large tactile sensing arrays with a sensor density of 25 sensors/cm2 for electronic skin, where the sensors are based on intrinsically stretchable piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) elastomer. The PZT elastomer sensor arrays with great uniformity and passive-driven manner enable high-resolution tactile sensing, simplify the data acquisition process, and lower the manufacturing cost. The high-throughput fabrication process provides a general platform for integrating intrinsically stretchable materials into large area, high device density soft electronics for the next-generation electronic skin. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-92e11e4acfa744c28a6c8e2c9e2d045c2025-08-20T00:23:34ZengAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Research2639-52742020-01-01202010.34133/2020/1085417Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate ElastomerYiming Liu0Huanxi Zheng1Ling Zhao2Shiyuan Liu3Kuanming Yao4Dengfeng Li5Chunki Yiu6Shenghan Gao7Raudel Avila8Pakpong Chirarattananon9Lingqian Chang10Zuankai Wang11Xian Huang12Zhaoqian Xie13Zhengbao Yang14Xinge Yu15Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300000, ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USADepartment of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaSchool of Biology Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300000, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Department of Engineering Mechanics, International Research Center for Computational Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaElectronic skin made of thin, soft, stretchable devices that can mimic the human skin and reconstruct the tactile sensation and perception offers great opportunities for prosthesis sensing, robotics controlling, and human-machine interfaces. Advanced materials and mechanics engineering of thin film devices has proven to be an efficient route to enable and enhance flexibility and stretchability of various electronic skins; however, the density of devices is still low owing to the limitation in existing fabrication techniques. Here, we report a high-throughput one-step process to fabricate large tactile sensing arrays with a sensor density of 25 sensors/cm2 for electronic skin, where the sensors are based on intrinsically stretchable piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) elastomer. The PZT elastomer sensor arrays with great uniformity and passive-driven manner enable high-resolution tactile sensing, simplify the data acquisition process, and lower the manufacturing cost. The high-throughput fabrication process provides a general platform for integrating intrinsically stretchable materials into large area, high device density soft electronics for the next-generation electronic skin.http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2020/1085417 |
| spellingShingle | Yiming Liu Huanxi Zheng Ling Zhao Shiyuan Liu Kuanming Yao Dengfeng Li Chunki Yiu Shenghan Gao Raudel Avila Pakpong Chirarattananon Lingqian Chang Zuankai Wang Xian Huang Zhaoqian Xie Zhengbao Yang Xinge Yu Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer |
| title | Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer |
| title_full | Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer |
| title_fullStr | Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer |
| title_short | Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer |
| title_sort | electronic skin from high throughput fabrication of intrinsically stretchable lead zirconate titanate elastomer |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2020/1085417 |
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