Trace pattern for touch-sensing application

A capacitive sensor array, comprising:

• a plurality of row sensor elements including a first row sensor element;
• a plurality of column sensor elements including a first column sensor element;
• and
• a plurality of unit cells, wherein each of the plurality of unit cells contains an intersection between one of the plurality of row sensor elements and one of the plurality of column sensor elements, and wherein a first unit cell contains a first intersection between the first row sensor element and the first column sensor element, wherein
• L
• B
• A
• CELL
• >
• 2
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• 2
• 
• 
• units
• -
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• where LB represents the boundary length in units and ACELL represents an area of the unit cell in square units.

A capacitive touch-sensing system, comprising:

• a capacitive sensor array, comprising:
• a row sensor element of a plurality of row sensor elements,
• a column sensor element of a plurality of column sensor elements, and
• a unit cell of a plurality of unit cells, wherein each of the plurality of unit cells contains an intersection between one of the plurality of row sensor elements and one of the plurality of column sensor elements, wherein the unit cell contains an intersection between the row sensor element and the column sensor element, and wherein a ratio between 1) a boundary length between the row sensor element and the column sensor element within the first unit cell and 2) a perimeter of the first unit cell is greater than √{square root over (2)}/2;
• and
• a capacitance sensor coupled with the capacitive sensor array, wherein the capacitance sensor is configured to measure a mutual capacitance for each of the intersections.