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  • Date of publication: 15 October 2008

    IMEC paves the way towards optical sensing foils

    Belgian research organisation IMEC reports that it has made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate, including optical waveguides, light sources and detectors. A new technique developed at INTEC, the company’s associated laboratory at Ghent University in Belgium, is said to make it possible to manufacture foils that sense changes in pressure. Such sensing, skin-like foils could be used for monitoring irregular or moving surfaces such as in robots and pliable machinery, or as artificial skin.

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