• DocumentCode
    3734871
  • Title

    Flexible touch sensors based on nanocomposites embedding polymeric optical fibers for artificial skin applications

  • Author

    F. Spano;A. Dabrowska;B.M. Quandt;L. Boesel;R.M. Rossi;A. Massaro;A. Lay-Ekuakille

  • Author_Institution
    Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Protection and Physiology, Lerchenfeldstrasse 5, CH-9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1295
  • Lastpage
    1298
  • Abstract
    Development of artificial or robotic skin implementing optical touch sensors is considered. Integration of polymeric optical fibers in elastomeric nanocomposite matrix biomimicking human skin specification as flexibility and large-area sensing is presented. The sensing principle is directly linked to deformation of the polymeric optical fiber itself under applied weight solicitations.
  • Keywords
    "Optical fibers","Gold","Prototypes","Skin","Nanocomposites","Polymers","Plastics"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO) , 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NANO.2015.7388870
  • Filename
    7388870
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3734871