Extremely sensitive, thin, conformable tactile sensors will play a key role in the next generation of consumer wearable and clinical devices that measure blood pressure. While there are many methods to measure blood pressure, all but the most invasive, intra-arterial techniques suffer from deficiencies that can lead to inaccurate or inconsistent results. Even the standard…

Consumer electronics, medical devices and other applications are spurring the development of sensors to measure a range of parameters. One of the latest is a capacitive-based miniature force sensor that can accurately, and with high repeatability, measure forces as low as 1 g. This sensor lets you measure applied force at discreet points, even at…