Intrinsically Stretchable Organic-Tribotronic-Transistor for Tactile Sensing

Junqing Zhao; Tianzhao Bu; Xiaohan Zhang; Yaokun Pang; Wenjian Li; Zhi Zhang; Guoxu Liu; Zhong Lin Wang; Chi Zhang

doi:10.34133/2020/1398903

Intrinsically Stretchable Organic-Tribotronic-Transistor for Tactile Sensing

Research (Wash D C). 2020 Jun 24:2020:1398903. doi: 10.34133/2020/1398903. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Junqing Zhao^{1

2}, Tianzhao Bu^{1

2}, Xiaohan Zhang^{1

2}, Yaokun Pang^{1

2}, Wenjian Li^{1

2}, Zhi Zhang^{1

2}, Guoxu Liu^{1

2}, Zhong Lin Wang^{1

2

3}, Chi Zhang^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Energy and Sensor, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China.
² School of Nanoscience and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ School of Material Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
⁴ Center on Nanoenergy Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.

Abstract

Stretchable electronics are of great significance for the development of the next-generation smart interactive systems. Here, we propose an intrinsically stretchable organic tribotronic transistor (SOTT) without a top gate electrode, which is composed of a stretchable substrate, silver nanowire electrodes, semiconductor blends, and a nonpolar elastomer dielectric. The drain-source current of the SOTT can be modulated by external contact electrification with the dielectric layer. Under 0-50% stretching both parallel and perpendicular to the channel directions, the SOTT retains great output performance. After being stretched to 50% for thousands of cycles, the SOTT can survive with excellent stability. Moreover, the SOTT can be conformably attached to the human hand, which can be used for tactile signal perception in human-machine interaction and for controlling smart home devices and robots. This work has realized a stretchable tribotronic transistor as the tactile sensor for smart interaction, which has extended the application of tribotronics in the human-machine interface, wearable electronics, and robotics.