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Prof.
Bingpu Zhou
University of Macau |
Speech Title:
Coupling of Magnetism with Flexible and
Wearable Sensors
Abstract: The
rapid development of IoT indicates that human beings are playing an
important role to interact and exchange information with the
surroundings. Sensors that can real-time record and transmit multiple
physiological signals of human beings facilitate the interaction with
the complex environment and promote the advanced development of our
society. In this presentation, we will introduce our recent work
focusing on the coupling of magnetism with flexible sensing components,
which is targeting to explore and broaden the applications of wearable
devices for future human-machine interaction (HMI) systems. By using the
intrinsic magnetic dipole property, we will show that the flexible
magnetized microstructures can be applied to distinguish the force
directions. This allows the establishment of directional sweeping
interactions in a more straightforward manner. Also, the conversion of
mechanical stimuli to electrical signals will be explained and
demonstrated for wearable HMI applications, such as surface
re-construction, and Morse code communications, etc. The working
mechanism and optimization principle of magnetism coupling into flexible
and wearable devices will be discussed in details.
Biography: Dr.
Bingpu Zhou obtained his PhD degree from HKUST in 2015. He is currently
an Associate Professor of Institute of Applied Physics and Materials
Engineering in University of Macau. Dr. Zhou also serves as the
Associate Department Head of Department of Physics and Chemistry in
Faculty of Science and Technology, and the Joint Associate Professor in
Function Hub at HKUST (GZ). His group is mainly focusing on the
optimization of flexible sensors with magnetism-mechanics-coupled
effect, and functional surface/interface analysis. Some of the work have
been published in Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS
Nano, and Nano Energy, etc. as first/corresponding author.
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