Abstract
Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) with hexagonal barium titanate nanocrystals (h-BTNCs) in amorphous matrix as one of the bilayer dielectric systems have been fabricated on a highly flexible 10 μm thick poly(ethylene terephthalate) substrate. The device current and mobility remain constant up to a bending radius of 4 mm, which makes the substrate suitable for wearable e-skin applications. h-BTNC films are found to be highly temperature-sensitive, and the OFETs designed based on this material showed ultraprecision measurement (∼4.3 mK), low power (∼1 μW at 1.2 V operating voltage), and ultrafast response (∼24 ms) in sensing temperature over a range of 20-45 °C continuously. The sensors are highly stable around body temperature and work at various extreme conditions, such as under water and in solutions of different pH values and various salt concentrations. These properties make this sensor unique and highly suitable for various healthcare and other applications, wherein a small variation of temperature around this temperature range is required to be measured at an ultrahigh speed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4193-4202 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 30 Jan 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society.
Funding
This work was partially supported by various funding agencies of Government of India with sanction no.: (DBT) BT/ PR16620/NER/95/223/2015, (MeitY) 5(1)/2017-NANO, (DST) DST/NM/NNetRA/2018(G)-IIT-KGP. The authors also acknowledge the support provided by the XPS facility in the Department of Physics and other facilities used in Central Research Facilities (CRF), IIT Kharagpur, India.
Funders | Funder number |
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Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India | BT/ PR16620/NER/95/223/2015 |
Ministry of Electronics and Information technology | DST/NM/NNetRA/2018(G)-IIT-KGP |
Keywords
- electronic skin
- flexible sensors
- healthcare sensors
- low-power OFETs
- organic field-effect transistors
- temperature sensors