Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Self-powered ultraflexible photonic skin for continuous bio-signal detection via air-operation-stable polymer light-emitting diodes

  • Hiroaki Jinno,
  • Tomoyuki Yokota,
  • Mari Koizumi,
  • Wakako Yukita,
  • Masahiko Saito,
  • Itaru Osaka,
  • Kenjiro Fukuda,
  • Takao Someya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22558-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Flexible electronic devices remain an attractive technology for optical sensor applications that require long-term health monitoring and conformability on human skin. Here, the authors report an ultrathin self-powered integrated organic optical system for plethysmogram monitoring.