Printed Sensors on flexible substrates is a burgeoning market. Ranging from medical sensors that conforms to body applications to the billions of sensors that is required to power the Internet of Things, Our flexible printed sensors have the potential to drive growth in emerging applications.
Functional inks can be used as a sensor electrode in various sensors, e.g., capacitive touch sensors, piezoelectric pressure sensors, organic photodetectors, conformal skin sensors, bioelectrodes etc.
Sometimes the sensor electrode must be transparent, such as to backlight a capacitive touch sensor/switch, or in photodetectors. Here we can use a conductive polymer, to play its strengths against metal or carbon materials.
Full flexibility for IMEs
We can also offer the full flexibility sought after in the production of In-mold electronics (IMEs) which feature curved and 3D-shaped smart surfaces with embedded sensors using polymers.
As the internet of things (IOT) keeps expanding, the number of sensors which measure and connect devices, which are worked intowearable electronics or smart textiles or which assist with diagnostics, fingerprint sensors, X-ray detectors or elsewhere will grow accordingly.