Applications
- Robotics and automation
- Flow monitoring
- Manufacturing
- Vibration sensing
- Structural health monitoring, including MEMS devices/structures
- IoT/wearables
Benefits
- Increases yield through precise monitoring of equipment position
- Improves air flow monitoring with high-speed detection
- Prevents equipment failure with real-time vibration monitoring
- Easily interfaces to existing electronic systems
Features
- High sensitivity (~0.3%) change in resistance per degree bend
- Gauge factor >15X that of metal strain gauge
- Bi-directional bend sensitivity
- Ultrafast response time to bend (< 10 ms)
- >98% linear change in resistance vs. bend angle from +180° to -180°
- Wide operating voltage range (4 mV to 50 V)