Thin-Film Pressure Sensing for Industrial Applications: Nano-Scale Force Measurement and System Integration
Author: Postek Engineering Team | Reading time: 9 minutes Introduction Force and pressure measurement is one of the most common sensing tasks in industrial automation — yet the dominant technology, the strain-gauge load cell, has barely changed in 50 years. Load cells are accurate but bulky (typically >20mm thick), rigid, and require flat mounting surfaces. For modern applications — wearable medical devices, robotic gripper feedback, IoT-embedded force sensing, curved-surface touch detection — traditional load cells are simply too large and inflexible. ...