Abstract
Advances in smart sensors, miniaturization, and related technologies leading to theemergence of smart fabrics are prerequisites to the construction of a point-of-care (POC)system for continuous health monitoring and illness prevention. Low manufacturing cost,light weight, portability and flexibility are among the requirements for smartsensors when embedded into smart fabrics. Organic semiconductor technologyhas recently been envisioned to meet these requirements, and to encourage thedevelopment of organic semiconductor based sensors because of its low processtemperature and potential for very low cost manufacturing. In this paper, wepresent flexible sensors based on an organic semiconductor capable of measuringphysiological parameters such as strain and temperature, adopting pentacene thin filmtransistors (TFTs) and Wheatstone bridge structures. It is expected that these sensors,integrated into textile structures, will enable real time POC monitoring of a patient’srespiration rate, skin temperature, body heat flow and body temperature at an earlystage.
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