Strain Sensor Based on Optical Intensity Change Through the Carbon Nanotube Embedded Elastomer

Abstract

In this research, the 3D printed package for optical transmittance change base strain sensor was developed. Optical transmittance based strain sensor is consisted by light source, light detector and functional film which transmittance changed by the external strain. Functional film is carbon nanotube embedded elastomer and it changes its visible light transmittance by the strain. To adjust the optical strain sensor on the human motion detection, we positioned light source and detector in the sensor package. To achieve this problem, we adopted the 3D printed polylactic acid (PLA) package for fabricating ring type strain sensor for finger bending detection.