IIT Jodhpur, in collaboration with AIIMS Jodhpur, is developing flexible, wearable semiconductor sensors for real-time health monitoring and early disease detection, including cancer. These low-power patches track vital signals and biomarkers, offering non-invasive diagnostics for clinics, rural areas, and even defence use.

Jaipur: IIT Jodhpur is developing semiconductor sensors that can be worn as patches on the body for early detection of serious diseases like cancer and real-time health monitoring.  These wearable semiconductor devices, being developed at the Hybrid Electric Sensor Technologies Lab of the institute, are considered an important initiative towards disease detection. 

This research is being conducted in collaboration with AIIMS Jodhpur and is led by Dr. Akshay Moudgil, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Jodhpur.

Soft, flexible, and smart semiconductor devices that can monitor vital physiological and biochemical signals from the human body in real-time are being developed under the research project.  These wearable sensors are capable of measuring parameters such as heart rate, muscle signals, body temperature, and skin pressure and are comfortable for long-term use.

“Many diseases are detected late as continuous monitoring is limited to specialized medical facilities. Our goal is to develop semiconductor devices that can continuously and comfortably monitor body signals, enabling early detection of warning signs,” said Dr. Akshay Moudgil.