Electrical performance of inkjet printed flexible cable for ECG monitoring

Abstract

This paper presents electrical performance of paper based inkjet printed flexible cable for wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring. The cable is fabricated by inkjet printing of nano-silver wires on paper which connect bio-electric electrodes with wireless transmission of ECG signals to the central medical device. The cable consists of printed metal traces and a shielding line in the middle. The experiment results show that a reliable performance with high quality ECG data can be transmitted on the inkjet printed flexible cable.