Ultrasensitive skin-like wearable optical sensors based on glass micro/nanofibers

Lei Zhang; Jing Pan; Zhang Zhang; Hao Wu; Ni Yao; Dawei Cai; Yingxin Xu; Jin Zhang; Guofei Sun; Liqiang Wang; Weidong Geng; Wenguang Jin; Wei Fang; Dawei Di; Limin Tong

doi:10.29026/oea.2020.190022

Opto-Electronic Advances, Volume. 3, Issue 3, 190022-1(2020)

Ultrasensitive skin-like wearable optical sensors based on glass micro/nanofibers

Lei Zhang^1、*, Jing Pan¹, Zhang Zhang¹, Hao Wu¹, Ni Yao¹, Dawei Cai¹, Yingxin Xu¹, Jin Zhang¹, Guofei Sun², Liqiang Wang¹, Weidong Geng², Wenguang Jin³, Wei Fang¹, Dawei Di^1,4, and Limin Tong¹

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

²College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

³College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

⁴Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom

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Category: Original Article

Received: Jun. 21, 2019

Accepted: Sep. 23, 2019

Published Online: May. 19, 2020

The Author Email: Zhang Lei (phytong@zju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.29026/oea.2020.190022

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