Flexible and skin-attachable vibration sensors have been studied for use as wearable voice-recognition electronics. However, the development of vibration sensors to recognize the human voice accurately with a flat frequency response, a high sensitivity, and a flexible/conformable form factor has proved a major challenge. Here, we present an ultrathin, conformable, and vibration-responsive electronic skin that detects skin acceleration, which is highly and linearly correlated with voice pressure. This device consists of a crosslinked ultrathin polymer film and a hole-patterned diaphragm structure, and senses voices quantitatively with an outstanding sensitivity of 5.5 V Pa −1 over the voice frequency range. Moreover, this ultrathin device (<5 μm) exhibits superior skin conformity, which enables exact voice recognition because it eliminates vibrational distortion on rough and curved skin surfaces. Our device is suitable for several promising voice-recognition applications, such as security authentication, remote control systems and vocal healthcare.

A single-ended transmitter (Tx) is proposed to compensate for the crosstalk-induced jitter (CIJ) of coupled microstrip lines by subtracting a mimicked crosstalk waveform from data signal at Tx during the data transition time, depending on the data transition of an adjacent line. Since the CIJ component is proportional to the time derivative of data signal, the mimicked crosstalk waveform subtracted at Tx cancels the CIJ at receiver (Rx) for the linearly changing data signal with time. As a by-product, this scheme reduces ISI at Rx. The Tx chip in a 0.13-m CMOS process reduces the total Rx jitter by 96 ps (69%) at 7.2 Gbps (4-in channels) and by 120 ps (72%) at 6 Gbps (8-in channels).

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Abstract-H-field EMI measurements have been performed for the single-ended, the differential, and the pseudo-differential signaling on a 11" FR4 microstrip line. The pseudo-differential signaling reduces EMI by more than 10 dB compared to the single-ended signaling if the delay mismatch is lower than 5% of a period for a 3 GHz clock signal. Empirical H-field equations for both differential and single-ended signaling showed fair agreements with measurements.