This paper proposes non-fragile compliant humidity sensors that can be fabricated inexpensively on various types of nano-porous polymer membranes such as polycarbonate, cellulose acetate, and nylon membranes. The sensor contains a pair of interdigitated electrodes deposited on the nano-porous polymer membranes. The resistance and/or capacitance between these electrodes vary at different humidit...

Due to the necessity of the automation and control of processes in agriculture, as well as to the crescent interest for the environmental monitoring, efforts have been demanded in the development of more versatile, reliable sensors and sensor systems with smaller cost [1,2]. In this sense, the search of new materials, the modeling study of sensor and the development of new measurement technique...

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is considered to be one of the most promising candidates for next-generation wearable sensors; however, sensing ability PVDF worth expanding beyond its ferroelectricity. In this work, used as matrix material humidity detection by adding two other ingredients: lithium chloride (LiCl) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), optimal concentrations LiCl PVA are found systematic ...

The kinetic behaviour of humidity sensors based on a cross-linked interpenetrated polyelectrolyte was investigated. Various parameters were changed in order to study their effect on the response to a humidity variation. The influence of the way of preparation of the polymer and of the sensing layer thickness are reported and discussed.

A highly flexible porous ionic membrane (PIM) is fabricated from a polyvinyl alcohol/KOH polymer gel electrolyte, showing well-defined 3D porous structure. The conductance of the PIM changes more than 70 times as the relative humidity (RH) increases from 10.89% to 81.75% with fast and reversible response at room temperature. In addition, the PIM-based sensor is insensitive to temperature (0-95 ...

A first step towards a microfabricated potentiometric thin-film sensor array for the simultaneous detection of Pb, Cd and Cu has been realized. The sensitive layers used are on the basis of chalcogenide glass materials. These thin-film chalcogenide glass materials that consist of mixtures of Pb-Ag-As-I-S, Cd-Ag-As-I-S or Cu-Ag-As-Se have been prepared by pulsed laser deposition technique. The d...