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    Expert's Opinion

    IDTechEx: Top 5 Innovative Printed, Flexible Sensor Technologies

    Printed/flexible sensors offer multiple benefits relative to their more established rigid counterparts.

    IDTechEx: Top 5 Innovative Printed, Flexible Sensor Technologies
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    Printed/flexible sensors offer multiple benefits relative to their more established rigid counterparts, including lower weight, flexibility/conformality, and potentially lower manufacturing costs since printing facilitates high-throughput continuous production methods. 

     

    Furthermore, printed/flexible sensors can measure a wide range of parameters and can be employed in emerging applications, including industrial IoT, wearables, automotive interiors, and smart buildings.

     

    In no particular order, here are IDTechEx’s top five innovative printed/flexible sensor technologies along with their associated applications:

    • Hybrid piezoresistive and capacitive sensors: You may be familiar with both capacitive touch sensors, found, for example, on top of smartphone and tablet displays, and piezoresistive sensors that detect changes in pressure. Both these functionalities can be combined within the same multilayer printed film to form hybrid sensors. Such sensors can detect both proximity and pressure, enabling buttons that illuminate before contact but only actuate with a firm press. They can also be utilized in robot grippers to detect when the ‘fingers’ are close to objects and measure the pressure distribution;
    • Thin-film organic image sensors: Most image sensors are made from small rigid pieces of silicon. However, many other semiconductors can also be used to detect light, including printable organic semiconductors. These have the advantage of being very thin since the light-absorbing layer is only a few hundred nanometers and is cost-effective to manufacture over large areas, making them applicable to biometric sensing such as fingerprint recognition. Furthermore, unlike silicon, the absorption spectrum of organic semiconductors can be adjusted, including into the NIR region;
    • Printed pH sensors: Currently, most methods of measuring pH are either inaccurate/subjective (universal indicator paper) or relatively costly (electronic probes with a reference electrode). German firm Accensorshave recently developed a method for printing pH sensors, in which an affordable and simple sensor can be created by printing just one nanoliter of proprietary material. A printed temperature sensor usually accompanies these pH sensors to ensure accurate readings (since pH is a function of temperature). Arrays of printed pH and temperature sensors have been incorporated within prototype wound monitoring patches;
    • Moisture sensing via RFID : Swedish company InviSense developed a printable thin-film sensor that can detect moisture. A printed RFID antenna coil is coated with a moisture-absorbing material. As moisture is absorbed, the capacitance associated with the coil also changes, changing its resonant frequency . This can then be detected remotely by an RFID reader . The key advantage of this approach is that the thin film format of the sensor enables it to be placed behind bathroom tiles and that testing can be performed in a non-destructive manner;
    • ‘Electronic noses’ from printed gas sensor arrays: Relative to sound, sight, and touch, smell is one of the human senses that has yet to be effectively digitized. One of the challenges is that odors are made up of multiple gas molecules in different concentration ratios. The ‘electronic nose’ approach to gas sensing aims to resolve this challenge by using an array of semiconductors, such as carbon nanotubes , that are functionalized slightly differently. By algorithmically comparing the conductivity changes across the different sensor regions with reference data, the gas composition can be determined.

     

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