Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning
Flexible, large-area, and low-cost thermal sensing networks with high spatial and temporal resolution are of profound importance in addressing the increasing needs for industrial processing, medical diagnosis, and military defense. Here, a thermoelectric (TE) fiber is fabricated by thermally codrawi...
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| author | Zhang, Ting Wang, Zhe Srinivasan, Bhuvanesh Wang, Zhixun Zhang, Jing Li, Kaiwei Boussard-Pledel, Catherine Troles, Johann Bureau, Bruno Wei, Lei |
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| author_facet | School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Zhang, Ting Wang, Zhe Srinivasan, Bhuvanesh Wang, Zhixun Zhang, Jing Li, Kaiwei Boussard-Pledel, Catherine Troles, Johann Bureau, Bruno Wei, Lei |
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| description | Flexible, large-area, and low-cost thermal sensing networks with high spatial and temporal resolution are of profound importance in addressing the increasing needs for industrial processing, medical diagnosis, and military defense. Here, a thermoelectric (TE) fiber is fabricated by thermally codrawing a macroscopic preform containing a semiconducting glass core and a polymer cladding to deliver thermal sensor functionalities at fiber-optic length scales, flexibility, and uniformity. The resulting TE fiber sensor operates in a wide temperature range with high thermal detection sensitivity and accuracy, while offering ultraflexibility with the bending curvature radius below 2.5 mm. Additionally, a single TE fiber can either sense the spot temperature variation or locate the heat/cold spot on the fiber. As a proof of concept, a two-dimensional 3 × 3 fiber array is woven into a textile to simultaneously detect the temperature distribution and the position of heat/cold source with the spatial resolution of millimeter. Achieving this may lead to the realization of large-area, flexible, and wearable temperature sensing fabrics for wearable electronics and advanced artificial intelligence applications. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1471602021-03-24T04:39:45Z Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning Zhang, Ting Wang, Zhe Srinivasan, Bhuvanesh Wang, Zhixun Zhang, Jing Li, Kaiwei Boussard-Pledel, Catherine Troles, Johann Bureau, Bruno Wei, Lei School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering Thermoelectric Fibers Fiber Fabrication Flexible, large-area, and low-cost thermal sensing networks with high spatial and temporal resolution are of profound importance in addressing the increasing needs for industrial processing, medical diagnosis, and military defense. Here, a thermoelectric (TE) fiber is fabricated by thermally codrawing a macroscopic preform containing a semiconducting glass core and a polymer cladding to deliver thermal sensor functionalities at fiber-optic length scales, flexibility, and uniformity. The resulting TE fiber sensor operates in a wide temperature range with high thermal detection sensitivity and accuracy, while offering ultraflexibility with the bending curvature radius below 2.5 mm. Additionally, a single TE fiber can either sense the spot temperature variation or locate the heat/cold spot on the fiber. As a proof of concept, a two-dimensional 3 × 3 fiber array is woven into a textile to simultaneously detect the temperature distribution and the position of heat/cold source with the spatial resolution of millimeter. Achieving this may lead to the realization of large-area, flexible, and wearable temperature sensing fabrics for wearable electronics and advanced artificial intelligence applications. Ministry of Education (MOE) Nanyang Technological University Accepted version This work is supported in part by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (MOE2015-T2-1- 066 and MOE2015-T2-2-010), Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (RG85/16), and Nanyang Technological University (Start-up Grant M4081515: L.W.). Authors from Rennes acknowledges the European Commission’s H2020-MSCA grant (GA. 642557, CoACH-ETN). 2021-03-24T04:39:45Z 2021-03-24T04:39:45Z 2019 Journal Article Zhang, T., Wang, Z., Srinivasan, B., Wang, Z., Zhang, J., Li, K., Boussard-Pledel, C., Troles, J., Bureau, B. & Wei, L. (2019). Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(2), 2441-2447. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b20307 1944-8244 0000-0002-4472-2780 0000-0003-0819-8325 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147160 10.1021/acsami.8b20307 30576098 2-s2.0-85059816971 2 11 2441 2447 en MOE2015-T2-1- 066 MOE2015-T2-2-010 RG85/16 M4081515: L.W ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b20307. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering Thermoelectric Fibers Fiber Fabrication Zhang, Ting Wang, Zhe Srinivasan, Bhuvanesh Wang, Zhixun Zhang, Jing Li, Kaiwei Boussard-Pledel, Catherine Troles, Johann Bureau, Bruno Wei, Lei Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning |
| title | Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning |
| title_full | Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning |
| title_fullStr | Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning |
| title_short | Ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning |
| title_sort | ultraflexible glassy semiconductor fibers for thermal sensing and positioning |
| topic | Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering Thermoelectric Fibers Fiber Fabrication |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147160 |
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