Functional Tactile Sensors: Materials, Devices and Integrations (Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ye Zhou is an IAS Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University. His research interests include flexible and printed electronics, organic/inorganic semiconductors, surface and interface physics, nanostructured materials, and nano-scale devices for technological applications, such as logic circuits, data storage, photonics and sensors.

Prof. Ho-Hsiu Chou is an assistant professor at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. (2010) in Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University, and as a visiting researcher in IMEC, and Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include design the soft functional materials and their applications in sensors, flexible, stretchable and wearable electronics. He has published 17 patents and 22 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Catalysis, ACS Central Science, etc.

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Tactile sensors act as a source of data through their physical contact with the external world. This technology has obtained considerable attention for potential applications in healthcare monitoring, skin prosthetics and biomimetic robotics. Tactile sensors with multifunctional integration are highly desirable to satisfy various application requirements. This book covers functional material selection, device structure design and integration of tactile sensors.

Functional Tactile Sensors focuses on the subject of novel materials design and device integration of tactile sensors for functional applications. The book addresses the design, materials characteristics, device operation principles, specialized device application and mechanisms of the latest reported tactile sensors. The emphasis of the book is on the materials science aspects of tactile sensors―understanding the relationship between material properties and device performance.

Functional Tactile Sensors is suitable for researchers who work in the disciplines of materials science, engineering, and physics.