We provide world-wide and online unique and sustainable raw materials for electronics, such as PLK Volume Conductive papers. We also deliver a variety of derivated standard and custom products using our productions such as Our PLK-Touch sensors.
PLK-Sensing technologies enable to detect and quantify human touch and steps loading. Using appropriate open source interfaces, firmware and software application, you can quickly monitor fast and efficient signals variation for a variety of applications, or else use them in real-time as contact inputs for another variety of applications.
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Original Sensors Fabrication Kit
This kit is the original version of our fabrication kits, whith renewed and improved materials, especially with our newly produced papers made by the finest papermakers in Europe upon our specification to make it as reliable, finely ranged and as reactive as possible for sensors design.
Our Kits are available in virous papers format and contain:
- 4 Volume conductive 1K paper used as Electrodes Layer
- 2 Voume conductive 100K papers used as esistive papers
- 2 Dielectric thin cardoard for spacers and connection tails
- 2 bands of 20cm*0.6cm metal adhesive for connections
- 2 kraft paper adhesive for an eco-friendly encapsulation
- 2 A4 size plastic sheets for a more durable encapsulation
These materials combined with scissors of blades enable to produce a variety of sensors of any size and shape such as 2 Force sensors or Force + Position sensors of the size of the Electrodes Sheet (i.e. A5, A4 or 1Ft Square)
Volume Resistive Paper - 100K - 160GSM
Description
As part of technical raw material developed and experienced since 2006 for electronic application, the conductive paper 1K has especially been designed as electrode layers for the custom fabrication of touch sensors and especially force sensing resistors.
It can also be used for its piezoresistive behavior under compression but the conductive paper 100K is more interesting for such applications.
This paper was also used for the design of anti-static or shielding materials, heat power transfer, temperature and humidity sensing or else as an electrode or functional layer in various components such as power sources.
Technical Details
This paper ca be disposed as standard sheets (A5, A4 or 1 Foot Square) or else as bigger sheets on request. The PLK-1K paper was intensively studied and we can provide the following specifications for our current stock:
Electrical Specifications
| TF Surface Resistance | 44.1 KOhms / Sq +/- 10% | |
| BF Surface Resistance |
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| Electrical Volume Resistance | 0.7 * 10-5 Ohms.m | |
| Single page variability | < 5% | |
| Page to Page variability | < 10% | |
| Max Power |
5 Watts |
Paper Specifications
| Weight | 100 g/m2 |
| Thickness | 140 microns |
| Bulk | 0.71 g/cm3 |
| Roughness TF | 10 microns |
| Roughness BF | 7 microns |
| Cobb Water (60s) | 50+ g/m2 |
Recycling
This product was made in Europe mostly from wood and cotton fibers. It also contains less than 25% conductive Carbon Pigments and a few percent chemical additives.
It can (ands should) be disposed in recycling beans. Simply leave it free from other bonded materials such as metal connectors or plastic cover.
It was also optimized to have a minimal impact when buried, burnt or lost in the wild: it is biodegradable over time and burns much more easily than synthesis polymers.
Our carbon-based papers and inks, along with complimentary dielectric materials and connectors have become reference parts for the custom design and fabrication of efficient embedded systems and human-interface Devices exploiting touch sensing. You You will find here standard products designed for hobbyists and professionals. These are used for studies projects , research, POC, design, prototyping and little productions of sustainable electronics hardware.
Raw Materials
We produce and provide technical papers such as electrically resistive 1K used as electrode for the production of efficiency-proven paper-touch sensors. This paper is equivalent to plastic-based Velostat or Caplinq materials. We also produce technical inks and dielectric layers with organic-based mediums and manufacturing solution for the fabrication of custom electronic materials and components using these resources, such a paper-based touch sensors arrays.
We use High quality Tin-plated copper tape as flat connectors for general purpose, and we replace these with specialty printed Inks and other connection systems for larger serial productions.
We use ultra thin, resistant and soft touch thermoplastic materials as encapsulators by default. These will permanently protect the product while enabling simple recycling. We also provide a panel of alternative solutions from PLA to cellulose-base cellophane for the production of dispensable and fully safe and biodegradable products.
Cellulose and Non-Metal-based Materials
These resources are ROHS compliant and are mostly made with organic and renewable or recycled resources. They can be put in the recycle bin, as long as the paper is separated from a plastic encapsulation.
Cellulose papers are naturally biodegradable and compostable in the grounds and in unsalted water. It burns more easily and in lighter than plastics. It us much more recycled and cost effective to recycle than plastics.
Standard On-Line Products
PapierLogiK Sensors Development Kits
Our Raw materials are distributed as Development Kits and raw material resources for Fablabs and other facilities using blade or laser cutter, but also for individual use in research, prototyping, arts or else education.
These development kits have been used since 2007 with Masters students in Music Technology for a start and have since be used by hundreds of students, researchers, artists, hobbyist and professionnals
Check out how you can quickly build a geat variety of components with paper-based electronics.
Standard Sensors
Resizeable series of standard force, flexion, position and combos or arrays of shuch sensors are available on-line upon productions. We regularly add new design or remove out of stock products.
Mount and Plug Surfaces
We also distribute limited series of large sensors and control surfaces to be mounted by yourself and to be used for a variety of applications. These offers varies with our production stock.
On-Request Productions
We can design and (have) produce(d) in series our Technologies, and with been experiencing a variety of productions and manufacturing of paper-based printed electronics in Europe and Canada.
- We make design and prototyping easy with our development Kits and wide experience.
- We control the resources and manufacturing solutions for developments in Europe and Canada
- We already contributed to the development of numerous products with small and big companies like Néopost, P&G, ArjoWiggins, Airbus, CaterPilaar, Cascades and more recently Wundermarkt, Spaar and Aldi.
For more information, please contact us our founder rodolphe.koehly@papierlogik.com