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Japanese researchers to develop E-skin

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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.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.