PMID- 32549453 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200618 IS - 1094-4087 (Electronic) IS - 1094-4087 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 11 DP - 2020 May 25 TI - Opal-templated films for optical strain sensing. PG - 16280-16287 LID - 10.1364/OE.390095 [doi] AB - A polydimethylsiloxane film patterned by a self-assembled array has been demonstrated as a strain sensor. A monolayer of 580 nm polystyrene spheres prepared by convective deposition was the template to transfer a periodic pattern to a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film. Optical diffraction through the stretched PDMS film, enabled strain sensing perpendicular and parallel to the stretching direction, with sensitivities of 1.7 nm/% strain and 4.0 nm/% strain, respectively. The PDMS film was used as a vibration sensor at 50 Hz. FAU - Sitpathom, Nonthanan AU - Sitpathom N FAU - Muangnapoh, Tanyakorn AU - Muangnapoh T FAU - Dawes, Judith M AU - Dawes JM LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Opt Express JT - Optics express JID - 101137103 SB - IM EDAT- 2020/06/19 06:00 MHDA- 2020/06/19 06:01 CRDT- 2020/06/19 06:00 PHST- 2020/06/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/06/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/06/19 06:01 [medline] AID - 431805 [pii] AID - 10.1364/OE.390095 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Opt Express. 2020 May 25;28(11):16280-16287. doi: 10.1364/OE.390095.