Triboelectric touch sensor for position mapping during total hip arthroplasty
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Jae Bum Jeong1, Hyeok Kim2, Jun-Il Yoo3
1Department of Electrical Engineering, RIGET, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52828, Korea.
Objective:
In this research, a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) was utilized to determine if a pressure-based sensor could detect bearing friction in a total hip arthroplasty (THA) and detect the contact of specific areas during ROM checks.
Results:
The pressure-based sensor shows capability to sense bearing friction. In more detail, the TENG embedded in four different sides of the trial exhibits up to 1 V from peak-to-peak. Moreover, these flexible touch sensors with TENG describes a peak signal in output voltage which should lead to extremely sensitive detection of bearing friction induced by the THA.
