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Xuan Zhao1,2, Zheng Zhang1,2, Qingliang Liao1,2
1Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory for Advanced Energy Materials and Technologies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
User-interactive electronic skin is capable of spatially mapping touch via electric readout and providing visual output as a human-readable response. However, the high power consumption, complex structure, and high cost of user-interactive electronic skin are notable obstacles for practical application. Here, we report a self-powered, user-interactive electronic skin (SUE-skin), which is simple in structure and low in cost, based on a proposed triboelectric-optical model. The SUE-skin achieves the conversion of touch stimuli into electrical signal and instantaneous visible light at trigger pressure threshold as low as 20 kPa, without external power supply. By integrating the SUE-skin with a microcontroller, a programmable touch operation platform was built that can recognize more than 156 interaction logics for easy control of consumer electronics. This cost-effective technology has potential relevance to gesture control, augmented reality, and intelligent prosthesis applications.
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