ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

At the outset I express my gratitude to the Almighty God who has been with
me during each and every step that I have taken towards the completion of this seminar.
I thank our beloved Chairman Mr. Sany Edatukkaran and our honorable
Principal Dr. R. Sujatha for providing me the educative infrastructure and learning
ambience which motivated me to a great extent.
I wish to express my humble gratitude and sincere thanks to Mr. Sreejith S,
Head of Electronics and Communication Engineering, for his guidance and constant
supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the topic. I take
immense pleasure in conveying my thanks and deep sense of gratitude Mrs. Lini Paul
and Mrs. Elsa Alias seminar co-coordinators of Electronics and Communication
Engineering.
I would take this opportunity to thank my Guide Mr. Sreejith S for his
exhilarating supervision, timely suggestions and encouragements during all phases of this
work .Also, I would like to thank all the teaching faculties and supporting staff of our
department for advising me wherever in need and arranging the necessary facilities
I would like to convey gratitude to my parents whose prayers and blessings
were always there with me. Last but not least I would like to thank my friends and
others who directly or indirectly helped me in successful completion of this work.

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 ABSTRACT

The advancement in the field of organic semiconductor geared up developments

in electronic skin. Electronic skin or e-skin is a thin electronic material that mimics
human skin in one or more ways. Specifically, human skin can sense pressure and
temperature, stretch, and can heal itself. Electronic skin aims to apply these functions to
robotic and health applications Here we demonstrate electronic skin based on organic
transistors made up of C10DNTT.A plastic film of 10µm thickness, with an active matrix
organic transistor is developed. This has a bending radius of <1mm. The thin plastic film,
flexible sensor matrix is built on a flexible surface. The reported e-skin may find a wide
range of applications in interactive input/control devices, smart wallpapers, robotics and
medical/health monitoring devices.

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 CONTENTS

Sl. No. Title Page No.

1 INTRODUCTION 1

2 BACKGROUND STUDY 3

3 ARTIFICIAL E-SKIN 6

3.1 System Structure and Implementation 6

3.1.1 Organic Field Effect Transistors 6

3.1.1.1 C10dntt 6

3.1.2 Flexible Array Sensors 7

3.1.3 Nano Wire Arrays 7

3.2 User Interactive E-Skin 8

3.2.1 Fabrication Methods 8

3.2.1.1 Fabrication of Carbon 9

Nanotube TFT Active-Matrix 9

Back Plane

3.3 Bionic Skin

3.3.1 Thin Film Transistorsm (Tft) 11

3.3.2 Sensors 11

3.3.3 Fabrication on Plastic Base 11

3.3.3.1 Active Matrix Technology 12

3.3.3.2 Carbon Nanotubes 12

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3.4 Applications 13

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 3.4.1 Robotics 13

3.4.2 Biomedics 13

3.4.3 Optoelectronics 14

3.4.4 Wireless Communications 15

4 CONCLUSION 16

REFERENCES 18

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 LIST OF FIGURES

Figure. No. Title Page No.

2.1 E-skin wrapped around Robotic hand 3

2.2 LED’s integrated into substrate 4

2.3 Ultra-flexible circuits. 5

3.1 Artificial E-skin 6

3.2 Semiconductor Nanowires 8

3.3 Concept and structure of the user- interactive e-skin 9

Schematic illustration of fabrication process for user-interactive

3.4 10
e-skin

3.5 Bionic skin applied on human skin 11

3.6 Robotic sensors implementing E-skin techno 13

3.7 Highly integrated e-skins for robotics 13

3.8 Multifunctional Balloon Catheter 14

Pressure sensor hidden under Band-Aid - Highly integrate skins

3.9 14
for biomedical applications

3.10 Stretchable and twistable LED arrays. 15