Wearable organic optoelectronic sensors for medicine

Organic optoelectronic devices that can be used to make compact, wearable sensors for medicine and sports are shown and two examples are given: a tissue-oxygenation sensor and a muscle-contraction sensor. It is demonstrated how the muscle-contraction sensor on a volunteer's arm can successfully control the robot arm.

Citation

Bansal , A K , Hou , S , Kulyk , O , Bowman , E M & Samuel , I D W 2015 , ' Wearable organic optoelectronic sensors for medicine ' , Advanced Materials , vol. 27 , no. 46 , pp. 7638–7644 . https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201403560

Publication

Advanced Materials

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201403560

ISSN

0935-9648

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2014 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Description

This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Programme Grant “Challenging the limits of photonics: Structured light” (grant number EP/J01771X/1) and MRC.