heal.abstract |
Humans have always been curious to extensively understand the world around them
since childhood, striving to discover it. In this process, they have used all their available
senses: sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing. Over the years, science and technology
have evolved, resulting in the invention of more complex structures and the existence of
more subtle stimuli to our sensory organs, such as various biochemical substances, the
detection of which may not even be possible without technological means. At the same
time, as the various scienti c elds develop, additional precision tends to be required
in order to go deeper, precision that we ourselves can hardly provide. For this reason,
sensors are increasingly entering into various aspects of our lives to facilitate us, which are
divided into many categories and have various characteristics. In this particular thesis we
will study strain sensors, which belong to the category of mechanical sensors, and come
to provide a solution to accurately determine the stresses that many objects around us
are subjected to. Of course, nanotechnology cannot be ignored by this study, as in the
last decades it has played a key role in the development of many scienti c elds, such
as deposition techniques in microsystems technology, which includes the technology for
the fabrication of modern sensors, thus contributing to their better performance. For
this reason, we study strain sensors with platinum nanoparticles on
exible polyimide
(kapton) substrates. Firstly, we present various techniques for depositing nanoparticles on
the sensors and the physical phenomena on which their operation is based, which mainly
lies in the fact that the resistance of the sensors is changed due to the nanoparticles. Then,
such sensors, some of which contain additional layers of some oxides deposited by various
of the described deposition methods, are studied one by one for their functionality and
sensitivity and compared with each other. Finally, the prospects of these sensors for their
future utilization are presented. |
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