Title :
Cut-and-paste organic FET customized ICs for application to artificial skin
Author :
Someya, Takao ; Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ; Sakurai, Takayasu
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
A flexible, large-area pressure sensor suitable for artificial-skin applications is fabricated using organic transistors and rubbery sensors. Row decoders, column selectors and a pressure-sensitive array comprise the IC. Design customization is introduced by making the circuit scalable and realizing an arbitrary sensor area. Both sensor and circuit use the same sheet of organic circuits, so cutting and pasting with a connecting plastic tape is feasible.
Keywords :
MOS integrated circuits; SPICE; application specific integrated circuits; biomimetics; conducting polymers; intelligent sensors; organic semiconductors; pressure sensors; PMOS OFET; SPICE MOS model; artificial skin; column selectors; customized IC; cut-and-paste organic FET; design customization; flexible large-area pressure sensor; lift-off process; photolithography; pressure-sensitive array; row decoders; rubbery sensors; scalable circuit; shadow mask; Circuits; Conductive films; Decoding; FETs; Fabrication; Gold; OFETs; Silicon; Skin; Transmission line matrix methods;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2004. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2004 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8267-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2004.1332707
