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3 June 2007 Flexible organic temperature sensors
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Proceedings Volume 9665, Tenth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics; 96651W (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207806
Event: Tenth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
The design and fabrication of thin film temperature sensors for various applications is an important and well established field. In order to gain familiarity with the design and fabrication of such devices, students at the Virginia Military Institute create and test their own thin film temperature sensors using organic polymers. The sensor is created by depositing a conducting polymer onto a flexible substrate with electrical contacts deposited by thermal evaporation. The resistance of the polymer as a function of temperature establishes a relationship that is then used to determine unknown resistances.

The design and fabrication of thin film temperature sensors for various applications is an important and well established field. In order to gain familiarity with the design and fabrication of such devices, students at the Virginia Military Institute create and test their own thin film temperature sensors using organic polymers. The sensor is created by depositing a conducting polymer onto a flexible substrate with electrical contacts deposited by thermal evaporation. The resistance of the polymer as a function of temperature establishes a relationship that is then used to determine unknown resistances.

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Daniela Topasna "Flexible organic temperature sensors", Proc. SPIE 9665, Tenth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, 96651W (3 June 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207806
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KEYWORDS
Temperature sensors

Polymers

Thin films

Photonics

Resistance

Sensors

Thin film devices

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