A Flexible and Wearable Human Stress Monitoring Patch

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A human stress monitoring patch integrates three sensors of skin temperature, skin conductance, and pulsewave in the size of stamp (25 mm × 15 mm × 72 μm) in order to enhance wearing comfort with small skin contact area and high flexibility. The skin contact area is minimized through the invention of an integrated multi-layer structure and the associated microfabrication process; thus being reduced to 1/125 of that of the conventional single-layer multiple sensors. The patch flexibility is increased mainly by the development of flexible pulsewave sensor, made of a flexible piezoelectric membrane supported by a perforated polyimide membrane. In the human physiological range, the fabricated stress patch measures skin temperature with the sensitivity of 0.31 Ω/°C, skin conductance with the sensitivity of 0.28 μV/0.02 μS, and pulse wave with the response time of 70 msec. The skin-attachable stress patch, capable to detect multimodal bio-signals, shows potential for application to wearable emotion monitoring.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sci Rep

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sci Rep

Title: Scientific Reports

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

ISSN (Electronic): 2045-2322

Publication date (Electronic): 23 March 2016

Publication date Collection: 2016

Volume: 6

Electronic Location Identifier: 23468

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[1 ]NanoSentuating Systems Laboratory, Cell Bench Research Center Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) , 271 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea

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[a ] nanosys@ 123456kaist.ac.kr

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Publisher Item ID: srep23468

DOI: 10.1038/srep23468

PMC ID: 4804278

PubMed ID: 27004608

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Cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory response patterns to fear- and sadness-inducing films.

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