Mechanosensation electronics (or Electronic skin, e-skin) consists of mechanically flexible and stretchable sensor networks that can detect and quantify various stimuli to mimic the human somatosensory system, with the sensations of touch, heat/cold, and pain in skin through various sensory receptors and neural pathways. Here we present a skin-inspired highly stretchable and conformable matrix network (SCMN) that successfully expands the e-skin sensing functionality including but not limited to temperature, in-plane strain, humidity, light, magnetic field, pressure, and proximity. The actualized specific expandable sensor units integrated on a structured polyimide network, potentially in three-dimensional (3D) integration scheme, can also fulfill simultaneous multi-stimulus sensing and achieve an adjustable sensing range and large-area expandability. We further construct a personalized intelligent prosthesis and demonstrate its use in real-time spatial pressure mapping and temperature estimation. Looking forward, this SCMN has broader applications in humanoid robotics, new prosthetics, human–machine interfaces, and health-monitoring technologies.
Great successes have been achieved in developing perovskite light-emitting devices (LEDs) with blue, green, red, and near-infrared emissions. However, as key optoelectronic devices, yellow-colored perovskite LEDs remain challenging, mainly due to the inevitable halide separation in mixed halide perovskites under high bias, causing undesired color change of devices. In addition to this color-missing problem, the intrinsic toxicity and poor stability of conventional lead-halide perovskites also restrict their practical applications. We herein report the fabrication of stable yellow LEDs based on a ternary copper halide CsCu2I3, addressing the color instability and toxicity issues facing current perovskite yellow LED’s compromise. Joint experiment–theory characterizations indicate that the yellow electroluminescence originates from the broadband emission of self-trapped excitons centered at 550 nm as well as the comparable and reasonably low carrier effective masses favorable for charge transport. With a maximum luminance of 47.5 cd/m2 and an external quantum efficiency of 0.17%, the fabricated yellow LEDs exhibit a long half-lifetime of 5.2 h at 25 °C and still function properly at 60 °C with a half-lifetime of 2.2 h, which benefits from the superior resistance of CsCu2I3 to heat, moisture, and oxidation in ambient environmental conditions. The results obtained promise the copper halides with broadband light emission as an environment-friendly and stable yellow emitter for the LEDs compatible with practical applications.
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