Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Yi-Cheng Wang

Thad Eugene Starner

Zhong Lin Wang

Gregory D Abowd

Steven L Zhang

Seyedeh Fereshteh Shahmiri

Emmanouil Tentzeris

Mohit Gupta

Qiuyue Xue

Ryan Bahr

Peter McAughan

Diego Osorio

Dhruva Bansal

Nivedita Arora

Zhengjun Wang

Anandghan Waghmare

Chaoyu Chen

Shivan Mittal

Dingtian Zhang

Disclosed herein is a flexible sensing interface, comprising: a sensor, comprising: a core; an inner electrode in the form of a conductive material in contact with the core; an inner dielectric material substantially encasing the inner electrode; an outer electrode in the form of a conductive material in contact with the inner dielectric material and in electrical communication with the inner electrode; and an outer dielectric material substantially encasing the outer electrode; wherein the inner dielectric material and the outer dielectric material comprise an elastic material. Also disclosed herein are systems and methods for making and using the same.

Flexible sensing interface systems and methods

A vibration transducer for sensing vibrations includes a first flexible triboelectric member, a second flexible triboelectric member, a plurality of attachment points, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first flexible triboelectric member includes a first triboelectric layer and a material being on a first position on a triboelectric series. A conductive layer is deposited on the second side thereof. The second flexible triboelectric member includes a second triboelectric layer and a material being on a second position on the triboelectric series that is different from the first position on the triboelectric series. The second triboelectric member is adjacent to the first flexible triboelectric member. When the first triboelectric member comes into and out of contact with the second triboelectric member as a result of the vibrations, a triboelectric potential difference having a variable intensity corresponding to the vibrations can be sensed between the first and second triboelectric members.

Thin and flexible self-powered vibration transducer employing triboelectric nanogeneration

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Yi-Cheng Wang