Yuyan Gao

Pennsylvania State University

Papers

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Total Citations

324

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About

Yuyan Gao is a leading innovator in flexible and wearable electronics, with a primary focus on high-performance iontronic pressure sensors. Her most celebrated contribution is the development of a capacitive pressure sensor featuring laser-induced gradient micro-pyramids, which achieves an unprecedented combination of high sensitivity and exceptional linearity across an ultra-broad pressure range. This breakthrough, detailed in her 2023 paper that has already garnered over 324 citations, directly addresses a long-standing challenge in the field: enabling reliable, high-resolution pressure sensing even under large preloads. By engineering a programmable gradient structure in the iontronic interface, Gao’s work has profound implications for applications in soft robotics, electronic skin, and human-machine interfaces. Her research not only advances fundamental understanding of iontronic sensing mechanisms but also provides a scalable fabrication pathway for next-generation tactile sensors. With her work rapidly gaining recognition, Yuyan Gao stands out as a rising star whose innovations are setting new benchmarks for sensitivity and linearity in flexible pressure sensing technology.

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Papers
324
Total Citations
324
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Iontronic pressure sensor with high sensitivity over ultra-broad linear range enabled by laser-induced gradient micro-pyramids
324 citations · 2023
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2023 (1 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 10
🏛 Institutions: Pennsylvania State University

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