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Sensor Skins: An Overview

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Stretchable Bioelectronics for Medical Devices and Systems

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Sensor skins can be broadly defined as distributed sensors over a surface to provide proprioceptive, tactile, and environmental feedback. This chapter focuses on sensors and sensor networks that can achieve strains on the same order as elastomers and human skin, which makes these sensors compatible with emerging wearable technologies. A combination of material choices, processing limitations, and design must be considered in order to achieve multimodal, biocompatible sensor skins capable of operating on objects and bodies with complex geometries and dynamic functionalities. This chapter overviews the commonly used materials, fabrication techniques, structures and designs of stretchable sensor skins, and also highlights the current challenges and future opportunities of such sensors.

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