Battery-free, stretchable optoelectronic systems for wireless optical characterization of the skin.

ABSTRACT: Recent advances in materials, mechanics, and electronic device design are rapidly establishing the foundations for health monitoring technologies that have "skin-like" properties, with options in chronic (weeks) integration with the epidermis. The resulting capabilities in physiological sensing greatly exceed those possible with conventional hard electronic systems, such as those found in wrist-mounted wearables, because of the intimate skin interface. However, most examples of such emerging classes of devices require batteries and/or hard-wired connections to enable operation. The work reported here introduces active optoelectronic systems that function without batteries and in an entirely wireless mode, with examples in thin, stretchable platforms designed for multiwavelength optical cha

SUBMITTER: Kim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4972468 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature