Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time

  • Jin Ge,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Michael Drack,
  • Oleksii Volkov,
  • Mo Liang,
  • Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez,
  • Rico Illing,
  • Changan Wang,
  • Shengqiang Zhou,
  • Jürgen Fassbender,
  • Martin Kaltenbrunner,
  • Denys Makarov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12303-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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To realize electronic skins for emerging technologies that require multifunctional sensing capability, intelligent design strategies are needed. Here, the authors report electronic skins with a single sensory unit that simultaneously transduces both tactile and touchless stimulations.