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Nano-buckling during fabrication of flexible electronic circuitry

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Sigurd Wagner (1), Stephanie P. Lacour (1), Joyelle Jones (1), Pai-hui I. Hsu (1), James C. Sturm (1), Teng Li (2) and Zhigang Suo (2)
(1) Department of Electrical Engineering and PRISM, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(2) Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

“Electronic skin: architecture and components”, Physica E, Vol. 25, pp 326-334, 2004

ABSTRACT: Conceptual hardware architecture of skin-like circuits is described. An elastomeric skin carries rigid islands on which active subcircuits are made. The subcircuit islands are interconnected by stretchable metallization. We concentrate on recent advances in stretchable thin-film conductors, by covering their construction, evaluation, and laboratory and theoretical analysis. Reversibly stretchable conductors with electrically-critical strains ranging from 10% to 100% have been made.

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