Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 49, Issue 1, 210316-1(2022)
Laser direct writing of flexible antenna sensor for strain and humidity sensing
Jiaqi Zhang1... Yang Gao1,2,*, Chun Li1, Kuan Ju1, Jianping Tan1, Yanyan Ding3 and Fuzhen Xuan1
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1School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China2Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China3Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong 999077, Chinashow less
Laser direct writing (LDW) is a highly efficient and scalable technology to fabricate flexible electronic devices. In this work, a type of flexible circle antenna sensor is developed by LDW on polyimide film with good dielectric property in response to strain and humidity. The carbonized polyimide has good conductivity and great adhesion to the substrate, which could be used as the active material for antenna. The carbonized polyimide presents porous stacked carbon structures and has the excellent electrical properties, which facilitate strain sensing and make the antenna have low loss, respectively. The resonance frequency of the LDW-generated antenna sensor changes with the variation of applied strain and environmental humidity. The sensitivities of LDW-generated antenna sensor response to applied strain and humidity are ?8.943 kHz/με and ?6.45 MHz/RH%, respectively. The flexible antenna sensor prepared by the LDW provides a new possibility for the application of structural health monitoring.
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