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TOKYO: Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering strives to develop wearable electronic ‘e-skin’, that will provide the measurement for blood oxygen.
‘E-skin’ will be an electronic skin that can be worn as a second skin for bio-medical and other applications.
Light form red & green (PLEDs) penetrates into the skin, the reflected light is captured by the photo detectors from inside the finger and provides the result on the e-skin. That’s how it works.
It protects the electronics and rubber-based elastic substrate from oxygen and water vapor, extending their life from a few hours. Thickness of the e-skin is 3 microns-ten times thinner than our skins, according to the head of the research group Takao Someya.