posted on 2018-07-13, 00:00authored byMingyu Zhang, John T. W. Yeow
In
this work, we report a wearable thermal detector based on poly(vinyl
alcohol) and carbon nanotube (CNT) composite via photo-thermoelectric
effect. Passive room-temperature human body thermal imaging is demonstrated
with optimum detectivity up to 4.9 × 106 cm Hz1/2 W–1. Highly stable photoresponse (variation
< 4%) is obtained under a bending radius down to 3.5 mm. We also
found that the detector photoresponse is influenced by the composite
channel length because of Seebeck effect. This flexible, self-powered,
and sensitive detector opens up opportunities for wearable thermal
imaging and real-time health monitoring.