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Stretchable and wearable electronics and sensors

Ultra-thin and soft electronic circuits and sensors that can be placed on skin or incorporated into fabrics to measure environmental and health parameters are created by us.

A convergence of electronics, sensing, and biomedical engineering is enabling circuits that mimic properties of the skin surfaces, towards electronic skin that augments performance or overcome wound damage.

The potential for this platform is immense from UV sensing and tracking to sensors for food packaging to wireless biometric measurements.

Representative Publications

Rahman et al., “Artificial Somatosensors: Feedback Receptors for Electronic Skins,” Advanced Intelligent Systems 2 2000094 (2020).

Rahman et al., “Oxygen-deficient strontium titanate based stretchable resistive memories,” Applied Materials Today 13 126 (2018).

Gutruf et al., “Stretchable and tunable microtectonic ZnO-based sensors and photonics,” Small 11 4532 (2015).

Related Patents
  • C. van den Dungen, M. Bhaskaran, S. Sriram, S. Walia, D. Dong, B. Mantzis, and H. Lee, “Device, system and manufacturing method for electronic sensor,” Australian Provisional Patent 2020903048 [Priority Date: October 29, 2020].
  • M. A. Rahman, S. Walia, M. Bhaskaran, and S. Sriram, “Artificial somatosensors (Sensors),” Australian Provisional Patent 2020903048 [Priority Date: August 26, 2020].
  • P. Gutruf, S. Sriram, and M. Bhaskaran, “A flexible or stretchable sensor for use in detecting a substance and/or electromagnetic radiation and a method for detection thereof,” Australian Patent Application 2016203718 (Filed: June 03, 2016); US Patent Application 15/173,272 (Granted)
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