期刊
SENSORS
卷 19, 期 21, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s19214713
关键词
Flexible strain gauge displacement sensor; shadow mask; carbon ink; ink leakage
资金
- Qatar National Library
- NPRP grant from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation) [NPRP11S-0104-180192]
This work presents a cost-effective shadow mask printing approach to fabricate flexible sensors. The liquid-state sensing material can be directly brushed on a flexible substrate through a shadow mask. The ink leakage issue which often occurs in printed electronics is addressed with a custom taping scheme. A simple thermal compression bonding approach is also proposed to package the functional area of the sensor. To verify the feasibility and robustness of the proposed fabrication approach, a prototyped strain gauge displacement sensor is fabricated using carbon ink as the sensing material and a flexible polyimide (PI) film as the substrate. Once the substrate is deformed, cracks in the solidified ink layer can cause an increased resistance in the conductive path, thus achieving function of stable displacement/strain sensing. As a demonstration for displacement sensing application, this sensor is evaluated by studying its real-time resistance response under both static and dynamic mechanical loading. The fabricated sensor shows a comparable performance (with a gauge factor of similar to 17.6) to those fabricated using costly lithography or inkjet printing schemes, while with a significantly lower production cost.
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