Skin-Inspired Haptic Memory Arrays with an Electrically Reconfigurable Architecture

Bowen Zhu; Hong Wang; Yaqing Liu; Dianpeng Qi; Zhiyuan Liu; Hua Wang; Jiancan Yu; Matthew Sherburne; Zhaohui Wang; Xiaodong Chen

doi:10.1002/adma.201504754

Skin-Inspired Haptic Memory Arrays with an Electrically Reconfigurable Architecture

Adv Mater. 2016 Feb 24;28(8):1559-66. doi: 10.1002/adma.201504754. Epub 2015 Dec 16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
² Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore, 1 CREATE Way, 138602, Singapore.
³ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.

PMID: 26676965
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504754

Abstract

Skin-inspired haptic-memory devices, which can retain pressure information after the removel of external pressure by virtue of the nonvolatile nature of the memory devices, are achieved. The rise of haptic-memory devices will allow for mimicry of human sensory memory, opening new avenues for the design of next-generation high-performance sensing devices and systems.

Keywords: haptic memory devices; resistive switching memory; sensory memory; tactile sensing.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomimetics / instrumentation*
Electric Conductivity
Electrical Equipment and Supplies*
Humans
Memory*
Pressure
Sensation / physiology*
Skin*