developed by the university of California, Berkeley, & other; Electronic skin & throughout; The size of the screen with the pressure and change the brightness.

A research team at the university of California, Berkeley, in a paper just published in the journal nature materials today, announced to develop a kind of plastic as the material of the flexible screen, this is called & other; Electronic skin & throughout; The size of the screen with the pressure and change the brightness.

Along with the increasing consumer demand for wearable devices, scientific research personnel are very interested in research of flexible display material. A research team at the university of California, Berkeley, focused on a very common material: plastic.

The team made a called & other; Electronic skin & throughout; , to 16 x16 pixels of the flexible screen resolution. Touch screen, electronic skin will glow, the greater the pressure the higher brightness. This material can be used as an interactive wallpaper, used to watch the screen, touch control or integrated into the car dashboard. The team also believes that this kind of electron skin can make the robot has a more precise sense of touch.

In order to make the electronic skin, the team first curing a layer of plastic in the surface of silicon wafers, then covered a layer of electronic components, and then put the plastic layer stripping silicon. Finally, every pixel of plastic film is included in a transistor, a diode and a pressure sensor.

The team's findings published today in the journal nature materials, their common author wang chuan (ChuanWang, transliteration) said in a statement: & other; To integrate the sensor into network has been very common, but will get data into something interactive is a breakthrough. And, with iPrascalrove, computer monitors and tranpoinbitumenointrgyne ATM stiff touch screen, electronic skin is flexible, easily attached to any surface. Throughout the &;

UK Watson The paper introduces, this kind of electron skin can be used in the existing semiconductor technology manufactured equipment. More interestingly, the price of the electronic skin is relatively cheap. Now, the team is working on the research and development, trying to increase sensitivity to light and temperature features of this material.