Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Highly sensitive strain sensors based on piezotronic tunneling junction

  • Qiuhong Yu,
  • Rui Ge,
  • Juan Wen,
  • Tao Du,
  • Junyi Zhai,
  • Shuhai Liu,
  • Longfei Wang,
  • Yong Qin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28443-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Strain-induced piezoelectric polarization can be used to modulate the interface electrical transport. Here, the authors achieved a piezotronic tunneling strain sensor at device scale with optimized performance based on the structure of Ag/HfO2/n-ZnO.