Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Tape: A Versatile Material Platform for Optical Sensors.

Area of Science:

• Materials Science
• Optoelectronics
• Nanotechnology

Background:

• Pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) tapes are common in daily and industrial applications.
• Recent advances show PSA tapes are useful in micro- and nanotechnology.
• PSA tapes can serve as sacrificial layers or flexible substrates in contact transfer techniques.

Purpose of the Study:

• To review recent achievements in using PSA tapes as functional components in optical sensors.
• To highlight the versatility of PSA tapes in advanced sensing applications.

Main Methods:

• Review of existing literature on PSA tape applications in optical sensing.
• Categorization of sensors based on PSA tape integration.

Main Results:

• PSA tapes are successfully integrated into various optical sensing configurations.
• Applications include refractive index sensors, optomechanical sensors, and vapor sensors.
• PSA tapes offer a versatile platform for developing novel optical sensors.

Conclusions:

• PSA tapes are valuable functional materials for optical sensor development.
• Their use spans diverse sensing modalities, from chemical detection to mechanical measurement.
• Future research can further leverage PSA tapes in micro- and nano-scale optical sensing.