Textile-Based Humidity-Driven Wearable Electroluminescent for Visual Sensing

Abstract

Miniaturization and integration have become a trend of modern wearable intelligent electronics. But how to visualize sensing information in a single-level device remains a challenge. Here, we present a humidity-driven textile-based electroluminescent (EL) interactive display that allows for both sensing and visualization of humidity changes. Based on an interdigitated EL structure, a transparent humidity sensor layer with high humidity sensitivity was creatively introduced on the top-emitting layer as a bridging electrode. The visualization and sensing of humidity can be attributed to the electrical conductivity difference of the sensor layer, thus leading to the varied lighting emitting of EL devices on the application of given electric fields. Benefiting from the highly sensitive sensor layer and well-designed device structure, a variety of humidity-based behavior can be read immediately, including hand-writing and finger approach. Furthermore, our devices fabricated from textiles have great flexibility, breathability, and skin affinity, which is very suitable for human wearing. More importantly, this humidity-driven textile-based EL interactive display shows great application potential in breathing monitoring and health assessment.