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
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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"
Conference_Titel :
Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO) , 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/NANO.2015.7388870
