Integrating microchips for electronic skin

Science Daily  January 22, 2020
To closely replicate natural skin, it is necessary to interconnect a large number of individual sensors. An international team of researchers (Japan, Germany) developed a sensor system that consists of a 2 x 4 array of magnetic sensors, an organic bootstrap shift register, required for controlling the sensor matrix, and organic signal amplifiers. All electronic components are based on organic thin-film transistors and are integrated within a single platform. The researchers demonstrated that the system has a high magnetic sensitivity and can acquire the two-dimensional magnetic field distribution in real time and very robust against mechanical deformation, such as bending, creasing or kinking. In addition to full system integration, the use of organic bootstrap shift registers is a very important development step towards active matrix electronic skin for robotic and wearable applications…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE 

Construction of the imperceptible magnetosensory system. Credit: Science Advances 22 Jan 2020: Vol. 6, no. 4, eaay6094 

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