Science Bulletin 2018-04-03

Highly sensitive wearable sensor based on a flexible multi-layer graphene film antenna

Danli Tang, Qianlong Wang, Zhe Wang, Quantao Liu, Bin Zhang, Daping He, Zhi Wu, Shichun Mu

Index: 10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.014

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Abstract

The use of advanced carbon nanomaterials for flexible antenna sensors has attracted great attention due to their outstanding electromechanical properties. However, carbon nanomaterial based composites have yet to overcome drawbacks, such as low conductivity and toughness. In this work, a flexible multi-layer graphene film (FGF) with a high conductivity of 106 S/m for antenna based wearable sensors is investigated. A 1.63 GHz FGF antenna sensor exhibits significantly high strain sensitivity of 9.8 for compressive bending and 9.36 for tensile bending, which is super than the copper antenna sensor (5.39 for compressive bending and 4.05 for tensile bending). Moreover, the FGF antenna sensor shows very good mechanical flexibility, reversible deformability and structure stability, and thus is well suited for applications like wearable devices and wireless strain sensing.

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