阅读说明：本技术 一种基于超材料的高灵敏度压力传感器 (High-sensitivity pressure sensor based on metamaterial ) 是由 弥胜利 葛恒源 李林芷 姚弘毅 于 2021-06-18 设计创作，主要内容包括：一种基于超材料的高灵敏度压力传感器,包括主体结构、弹性材料拉伸层和碳纳米管薄膜；其中所述主体结构包括外棱台和内部小棱台,所述外棱台包括上底面和由所述上底面斜向下延伸的四条侧棱,相邻的侧棱之间通过弹性支撑结构相连,所述四条侧棱的底端斜向上延伸出四条小棱边,所述四条小棱边的顶部相互连接形成小平台,从而在所述主体结构的内部构成所述内部小棱台；所述弹性材料拉伸层铺设在所述内部小棱台的上底面,所述碳纳米管薄膜附着在所述弹性材料拉伸层的表面,所述碳纳米管薄膜的两侧通过电极引出导线。本发明提高了传感器的灵敏度和测量精确度,并获得较小的体积,从而便于阵列排布。(A high-sensitivity pressure sensor based on metamaterial comprises a main body structure, an elastic material stretching layer and a carbon nanotube film; the main structure comprises an outer prismatic table and an inner prismatic table, the outer prismatic table comprises an upper bottom surface and four side edges extending obliquely downwards from the upper bottom surface, the adjacent side edges are connected through an elastic supporting structure, four small edges extend obliquely upwards from the bottom ends of the four side edges, and the tops of the four small edges are connected with each other to form a small platform, so that the inner prismatic table is formed inside the main structure; the elastic material stretching layer is paved on the upper bottom surface of the inner prismatic table, the carbon nanotube film is attached to the surface of the elastic material stretching layer, and leads are led out from two sides of the carbon nanotube film through electrodes. The invention improves the sensitivity and the measurement accuracy of the sensor, and obtains smaller volume, thereby facilitating array arrangement.)

1. A high-sensitivity pressure sensor based on a metamaterial is characterized by comprising a main body structure, an elastic material stretching layer and a carbon nanotube film; the main structure comprises an outer prismatic table and an inner prismatic table, the outer prismatic table comprises an upper bottom surface and four side edges extending obliquely downwards from the upper bottom surface, the adjacent side edges are connected through an elastic supporting structure, four small edges extend obliquely upwards from the bottom ends of the four side edges, and the tops of the four small edges are connected with each other to form a small platform, so that the inner prismatic table is formed inside the main structure; the elastic material stretching layer is paved on the upper bottom surface of the inner prismatic table, the carbon nanotube film is attached to the surface of the elastic material stretching layer, and leads are led out from two sides of the carbon nanotube film through electrodes.

2. The high sensitivity pressure sensor of claim 1, wherein the body structure is a resin material.

3. The high sensitivity pressure sensor of claim 2, wherein the host structure is a photosensitive resin material.

4. The high sensitivity pressure sensor according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the outer prism and the inner prism are each three-dimensionally symmetrical.

5. The high-sensitivity pressure sensor according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the upper bottom surface of the inner truncated pyramid is hollowed out.

6. The high sensitivity pressure sensor of claim 5, wherein the carbon nanotube film is attached to a lower surface of the elastic material tensile layer.

7. The high sensitivity pressure sensor of any one of claims 1-6, wherein the elastic material tensile layer is a polydimethylsiloxane film.

8. The high sensitivity pressure sensor of any one of claims 1-7, wherein the resilient support structure is formed as an upwardly arched arch.

9. The high sensitivity pressure sensor of claim 8, wherein the arcuate structure includes two beveled edges and a top edge connected between the beveled edges, the top edge being parallel to the upper bottom surface of the outer ledge.

10. A metamaterial-based high-sensitivity pressure sensor, comprising an array formed by arranging a plurality of high-sensitivity pressure sensors as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9 with base corners attached to the base corners.

Technical Field

The invention relates to a sensor, in particular to a high-sensitivity pressure sensor based on a metamaterial.

Background

The pressure sensor is used as the most direct measurement means of pressure, is widely applied to industrial production and daily life, and mainly relates to the fields of automatic control, environmental monitoring, aerospace, war industry, medical treatment, intelligent home furnishing, bionic robots and the like. The common types of pressure sensors include strain gauge, piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, and vibration frequency type. At present, the technologies of the sensors in the traditional application field are quite mature, but with the rise of the field of the bionic robot, higher requirements are provided for the compliance and the response sensitivity of the pressure sensors and whether the pressure sensors can be arranged in an array manner or not in order to better simulate the skin compliance and accurately measure the local pressure.

Therefore, in order to meet new requirements of the pressure sensor in the emerging field, it is necessary to design a pressure sensor which has high flexibility, can realize local accurate measurement in a large range, and has high sensitivity.

It is to be noted that the information disclosed in the above background section is only for understanding the background of the present application and thus may include information that does not constitute prior art known to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

The main object of the present invention is to overcome the above mentioned drawbacks of the background art and to provide a high sensitivity pressure sensor based on metamaterials.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a high-sensitivity pressure sensor based on metamaterial comprises a main body structure, an elastic material stretching layer and a carbon nanotube film; the main structure comprises an outer prismatic table and an inner prismatic table, the outer prismatic table comprises an upper bottom surface and four side edges extending obliquely downwards from the upper bottom surface, the adjacent side edges are connected through an elastic supporting structure, four small edges extend obliquely upwards from the bottom ends of the four side edges, and the tops of the four small edges are connected with each other to form a small platform, so that the inner prismatic table is formed inside the main structure; the elastic material stretching layer is paved on the upper bottom surface of the inner prismatic table, the carbon nanotube film is attached to the surface of the elastic material stretching layer, and leads are led out from two sides of the carbon nanotube film through electrodes.

Further:

the main structure is made of resin materials.

The main structure is a photosensitive resin material.

The outer prismatic table and the inner prismatic table are of three-dimensional symmetrical structures.

The upper bottom surface of the inner prismatic table is of a hollow structure.

The carbon nanotube film is attached to the lower surface of the elastic material stretching layer.

The elastic material stretching layer is a polydimethylsiloxane film.

The elastic supporting structure is an arched structure which is arched upwards.

The arch structure comprises two oblique edges and a top edge connected between the two oblique edges, and the top edge is parallel to the upper bottom surface of the outer prismatic table.

A high-sensitivity pressure sensor based on metamaterials comprises an array formed by arranging a plurality of the high-sensitivity pressure sensors in a mode that bottom corners are attached to bottom corners.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

the invention provides a metamaterial-based high-sensitivity pressure sensor, wherein a main body structure comprises an outer prismatic table and an inner prismatic table, four side edges of the outer prismatic table are connected through an elastic supporting structure, the inner prismatic table is formed in the outer prismatic table, so that the main body structure is formed into a metamaterial structure, an elastic material stretching layer is laid on the upper bottom surface of the inner prismatic table, and a carbon nanotube film is attached to the surface of the elastic material stretching layer, and the metamaterial-based high-sensitivity pressure sensor has the advantages over a traditional pressure sensor that: the displacement in the vertical direction can be converted into the stretching of the carbon nanotube film in the horizontal direction, and the micro deformation is amplified. The sensitivity of the sensor is improved by the obvious change of the resistance when the carbon nano tube in the carbon nano tube film is broken. Moreover, due to the fact that the effective size of the carbon nanotube film can be small, the pressure sensor can be used as a sensing unit to obtain a small volume, array arrangement is facilitated, large-scale integration is facilitated, and accurate measurement capability of point or local area pressure can be obtained in a large range.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a metamaterial-based high-sensitivity pressure sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the high-sensitivity pressure sensor shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a 4 × 4 array of pressure sensors according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below. It should be emphasized that the following description is merely exemplary in nature and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention or its application.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element. In addition, the connection may be for either a fixed or coupled or communicating function.

It is to be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the embodiments of the present invention and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be in any way limiting of the present invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

Referring to fig. 1 to 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a metamaterial-based high-sensitivity pressure sensor, including a main body structure, an elastic material stretching layer 2, and a carbon nanotube film 1; the main structure comprises an outer prismatic table 5 and an inner prismatic table 6, wherein the outer prismatic table 5 comprises an upper bottom surface 3 and four side edges extending obliquely downwards from the upper bottom surface 3, adjacent side edges are connected through an elastic supporting structure 4, four small edges 7 extend obliquely upwards from the bottom ends of the four side edges, and the tops of the four small edges 7 are connected with each other to form a small platform, so that the inner prismatic table 6 is formed inside the main structure; the elastic material stretching layer 2 is laid on the upper bottom surface of the inner prismatic table 6, the carbon nanotube film 1 is attached to the surface of the elastic material stretching layer 2, and wires are led out from two sides of the carbon nanotube film 1 through electrodes.

In a preferred embodiment, the body structure is a resin material.

In a preferred embodiment, the host structure is a photosensitive resin material. The main structure can be formed by photocuring 3D printing through the photosensitive resin material, and the complicated metamaterial structure is convenient to manufacture.

As shown in fig. 1-2, in the preferred embodiment, the outer and inner prismatic tables 5, 6 are each three-dimensionally symmetric.

In a preferred embodiment, the upper bottom surface of the inner prism table 6 is a hollow structure.

In a preferred embodiment, the carbon nanotube film 1 is attached to the lower surface of the elastic material stretching layer 2.

In a preferred embodiment, the stretch layer 2 of elastic material is a polydimethylsiloxane film.

Referring to fig. 1-2, in a preferred embodiment, the flexible support structure 4 is an upwardly arched structure.

In the preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the arch comprises two sloping sides and a top edge connected between the two sloping sides, the top edge being parallel to the upper bottom surface 3 of the outer ledge 5.

Referring to fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a metamaterial-based high-sensitivity pressure sensor, which includes an array formed by arranging a plurality of the high-sensitivity pressure sensors in a manner that bottom corners are attached to bottom corners.

According to the invention, slight deformation in the vertical direction is converted into larger deformation in the horizontal direction, and the deformation of the elastic material stretching layer drives the carbon nanotube film attached to the surface of the elastic material stretching layer to deform through the conversion of the direction of the force, so that the slight deformation in the vertical direction can generate larger resistance change, the sensitivity is improved, and thus high-sensitivity measurement is realized under smaller deformation; the invention can realize the accurate measurement of local pressure in an array arrangement mode according to the requirement of pressure measurement in a large range of the bionic robot, thereby solving the problems that the traditional sensor is inconvenient for large-scale integration and cannot obtain the accurate measurement of pressure in a point or a small range in the use scenes of the bionic skin of the robot and the like, and the measurement of the pressure sensor in more use scenes becomes possible.

Specific embodiments of the present invention are further described below.

One embodiment is a pressure sensor based on a mechanical metamaterial structure, which is shown in fig. 1. The pressure sensor is of a three-dimensional symmetrical structure and comprises a main body structure, an elastic material stretching layer 2 adopting polydimethylsiloxane stretching and a carbon nano tube film 1; the main structure is made of photosensitive resin materials and comprises four outer prismatic platforms 5 which are made of two-dimensional metamaterials with the same size and shape; the outer prismatic table 5 is provided with four small edges 7 extending from the bottom ends of four side edges thereof so as to form an inner prismatic table 6 inside the structure; the hollowed square structure on the upper bottom surface of the internal prismatic table 6 is filled with a polydimethylsiloxane film to form an elastic material stretching layer 2, one side of the elastic material stretching layer, which faces the lower bottom surface of the main structure, is paved with a carbon nanotube film 1, and leads are led out from electrodes on two sides of the carbon nanotube film 1.

Wherein, the carbon nanotube film 1 is attached to the lower surface of the polydimethylsiloxane film 2, when the upper bottom surface 3 of the outer prism table 5 is stressed in the vertical direction, the elastic supporting structures 4 of the four two-dimensional metamaterials on the side surface of the outer prism table 5 can be elastically deformed, the elastic deformation can drive the polydimethylsiloxane film on the small prism table 6 in the structure to stretch under the driving of the supporting structures, and then the carbon nanotube film 1 is cracked in a nanometer scale, so that the resistance of the carbon nanotube film can be reversibly changed by a large margin. When the external force is removed, the structure returns to the original state.

The pressure sensors may be arranged in an array, fig. 3 shows a 4 × 4 array arrangement, and the metamaterial pressure sensor units are arranged in a manner that bottom corners are attached to bottom corners. Because the carbon nano tube can obtain obvious resistance change effect under the size of 5mm multiplied by 5mm, the size of each unit can be very small, and the large-scale array arrangement is convenient. When a certain metamaterial pressure sensor unit or units are subjected to a small range of pressure, the pressure value at the position can be accurately measured by each unit.

The high-sensitivity pressure sensor of the invention has the characteristics and advantages that: 1. the slight deformation of vertical direction turns into the great deformation of horizontal direction, drives the carbon nanotube film that adheres to its surface through the deformation of elastic material tensile layer and takes place the deformation, makes the slight deformation of vertical direction just can produce great resistance change, improves sensitivity. 2. The local pressure can be accurately measured in a large range by an array arrangement mode.

The background of the present invention may contain background information related to the problem or environment of the present invention and does not necessarily describe the prior art. Accordingly, the inclusion in the background section is not an admission of prior art by the applicant.

The foregoing is a more detailed description of the invention in connection with specific/preferred embodiments and is not intended to limit the practice of the invention to those descriptions. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various substitutions and modifications can be made to the described embodiments without departing from the spirit of the invention, and these substitutions and modifications should be considered to fall within the scope of the invention. In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "preferred embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like are intended to mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Various embodiments or examples and features of various embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction. Although embodiments of the present invention and their advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the scope of the claims.