Wearable and flexible electronic strain sensor
2017
Flexible strain sensors or deformable strain sensors have attracted
more and more attention for their excellent advantages and wide applications
in personal electronics and industrial monitoring. The electronic
skins and robotics are candidates for promoting the advancement of
science and technology in recent years. Because of their biomedical
applications, flexible strain sensors will significantly expand the
application scope of stretchable electronics, particularly large-area
electronics. The arbitrary surfaces covered with flexible electronics
can be stretched in all directions, which are necessary for the next
generation electronics. Howerer, conventional electronic strain sensors
based on metal and semiconductor materials have poor portability,
flexibility, and wearability, which is not applicable for stretchable
sensors. With the rapid development of materials and electronic technology
in the past decades, flexible strain sensors have become more and
more popular in electronic skin, robotics, and other fields. Compared
with conventional electronic sensors, flexible strain sensors have
many unique advantages, such as good biocompatibility, wearable, real-time
monitoring and non-invasive. In this review, the progress of wearable
flexible strain sensors in materials, sensing mechanism, integrated
output, and potential application are presented. After a brief introduction
for the development and application of wearable flexible strain sensors,
a simple comparison of old and new sensors is given. Then, studies
on the different parts of the sensor and the materials are reviewed,
including substrate, the dielectric layer, active layer and electrodes.
Subsequently, the mechanism inclouding piezoresistivity, capacitivity,
piezoelectricity, optical waveguide and other mechanisms of flexible
strain sensors are presented. In addition, this review summarizes
the integration and output of the flexible strain sensors. And the
faced challenges of the flexible strain sensors and possible optimization
solutions are proposed. Finally, challenges, important directions
and perspectives related to flexible stretchable strain sensors are
discussed. Continued rapid progress in this area is promising for
the development of a fully integrated e-skin in the near future.
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