Screen printed flexible capacitive pressure sensor

Abstract

A novel flexible fully printed capacitive based pressure sensor was designed and fabricated using screen printing technique. Silver (Ag) ink and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) were printed on a flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate as metallization and dielectric layers, respectively. The capacitive response of the sensor demonstrated a percentage change of 1 % and 3.6 % for compressive forces of 0.2 MPa and 2.4 MPa, respectively when compared to the base capacitance. The response of the pressure sensor is analyzed and presented in this paper.