Did you know that things can talk?
Imagine a device that gives your body, your structures, your gear, the ability to tell you their status in real time.
Key Points
FLEXIBILITY
The most flexible piezoelectric transducer
SENSITIVITY
Highest sensitivity to low external stimulus
BIOCOMPATIBILITY
No toxic materials are used
WATERPROOF
Electrical insulation due to parylene-C coating
FLEXIBILITY
The most flexible piezoelectric transducer
SENSITIVITY
Highest sensitivity to low external stimulus
BIOCOMPATIBILITY
No toxic materials are used
WATERPROOF
Electrical insulation due to parylene-C coating
PiezoSkin’s Technology
PiezoSkin team has developed a consolidated fabrication protocol of flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators and sensors. The devices are based on a polymeric substrate and a highly flexible thin films structure composed of Aluminum Nitride, a biocompatible, lead-free piezoelectric layer. The extremely low thickness of the whole structure (below 30 µm) makes the product the thinnest piezoelectric transducer in the market.
Company
PiezoSkin is a startup based in Lecce and established as a spin-off of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). PiezoSkin has developed technologies for harvesting energy and sensing from mechanical sources (such as vibrations and fluid flows) and by human body movements and vibrations. To this aim, PiezoSkin has developed the whole fabrication protocol for soft piezoelectric transducers, from a customizable design to device production, characterization and test. PiezoSkin develops customized solutions for energy harvesting, health monitoring and structural monitoring.