Transparent Pad Can Detect Touch Even While Being Bent (1 of 13) (IMAGE)

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Transparent Pad Can Detect Touch Even While Being Bent (1 of 13)

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A close up of the sensor prior to filling with gel electrodes, showing the array architecture. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 15, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.S. Sarwar at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, 'Bend, stretch, and touch: Locating a finger on an actively deformed transparent sensor array.'

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