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  • Materials Science
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Robotics

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  • Field-effect transistors (FETs) offer controllable carrier transport and signal amplification, making them ideal for artificial sensors.
  • FET-based tactile sensors are crucial for humanoid robotics and intelligent human-machine interactions.
  • Device performance metrics like sensitivity, stretchability, and resolution are dictated by FET carrier modulation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically review innovations in FET tactile sensors.
  • To explore how device, material, and processing strategies engineer sensing characteristics.
  • To examine applications in wearable electronics, neuromorphic systems, and intelligent displays.

Main Methods:

  • Review of diverse device, material, and processing innovations in FET tactile sensors.
  • Analysis of strategies including material-structure co-design and stretchability engineering.
  • Examination of high-resolution fabrication technologies for specific applications.

Main Results:

  • Diverse innovations enable tailored sensing characteristics (sensitivity, stretchability, resolution).
  • Strategies like co-design and stretchability engineering are applied to specific applications.
  • Challenges include signal stability, linearity, and scalable integration.

Conclusions:

  • Co-optimization of materials, device architectures, and fabrication processes is key to overcoming challenges.
  • Advanced FET tactile sensors hold promise for next-generation intelligent systems.
  • Future work should focus on signal stability, linearity, and high-resolution integration.