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Flexible Fibrous Piezo-Electric Sensor on Printed Silver Electrode

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2014

Ho Yeon Son
Affiliation:
School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, B.C. Canada V3T 0A3 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and KAIST Institute for NanoCentury and BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 305-701
Yoon Sung Nam
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and KAIST Institute for NanoCentury and BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 305-701 KAIST Institute for NanoCentury and BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 305-701
Woo Soo Kim
Affiliation:
School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, B.C. Canada V3T 0A3
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Abstract

Here we introduce a facile method to fabricate a flexible piezoelectric sensor using one-dimensional (1-D) piezoelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) nanofibers directly produced onto flexible printed electrodes by electro-spinning without an additional poling process. The flexible silver electrodes are fabricated on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using silver nanowires by easy and cost-effective spraying deposition. The electrospun PVDF nanofibers have uniaxially aligned arrays on the electrodes by using a rotating collector. The fabricated PVDF piezoelectric sensors demonstrate the piezoelectric responses with repeated mechanical stimuli with good flexibility and high sensitivity. We expect that the facile fabrication of PVDF piezoelectric sensors on flexible printed electrodes can be usefully exploited to integrate the piezoelectric sensors into flexible and stretchable functional electronic devices.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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