Stiff subcircuit islands of diamondlike carbon for stretchable electronics Export

@article{citeulike:762584, abstract = {Stretchable electronics on elastomeric substrates requires fragile and brittle device materials to be placed on stiff, mechanical distinct subcircuit islands. We deposited a diamondlike carbon (DLC) film at room temperature on a silicone substrate by pulsed laser ablation, and patterned the film into an array of 200\×200\ \ \µm2 islands. When the substrate was uniaxially stretched to a strain of 25\%, the islands remained adherent to the substrate and only deformed by \~{}5\%, while the exposed substrate stretched by more than 30\%. A row of 11 DLC islands interconnected with gold stretchable metallization maintained end-to-end electrical conduction during a mechanical cycle to 20\% tensile strain. This demonstration of electrically interconnected stiff islands on silicone illustrates two important steps toward fully integrated, elastically stretchable electronics. \©2006 American Institute of Physics}, author = {Lacour, Stephanie P. and Wagner, Sigurd and Narayan, Roger J. and Li, Teng and Suo, Zhigang}, citeulike-article-id = {762584}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JAPIAU000100000001014913000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aip.org/link/?JAP/100/014913}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2210170}, doi = {10.1063/1.2210170}, journal = {Journal of Applied Physics}, keywords = {experiment, flexible-electronics, macroelectronics, polymer-substrate, stretchability}, number = {1}, posted-at = {2006-07-18 00:08:33}, priority = {3}, publisher = {AIP}, title = {Stiff subcircuit islands of diamondlike carbon for stretchable electronics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2210170}, volume = {100}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:762584 L3 - citeulike-article-id:762584 N2 - Stretchable electronics on elastomeric substrates requires fragile and brittle device materials to be placed on stiff, mechanical distinct subcircuit islands. We deposited a diamondlike carbon (DLC) film at room temperature on a silicone substrate by pulsed laser ablation, and patterned the film into an array of 200×200  µm2 islands. When the substrate was uniaxially stretched to a strain of 25%, the islands remained adherent to the substrate and only deformed by ~5%, while the exposed substrate stretched by more than 30%. A row of 11 DLC islands interconnected with gold stretchable metallization maintained end-to-end electrical conduction during a mechanical cycle to 20% tensile strain. This demonstration of electrically interconnected stiff islands on silicone illustrates two important steps toward fully integrated, elastically stretchable electronics. ©2006 American Institute of Physics IS - 1 JF - Journal of Applied Physics TI - Stiff subcircuit islands of diamondlike carbon for stretchable electronics PB - AIP VL - 100 KW - experiment KW - flexible-electronics KW - macroelectronics KW - polymer-substrate KW - stretchability AU - Lacour, Stephanie AU - Wagner, Sigurd AU - Narayan, Roger AU - Li, Teng AU - Suo, Zhigang PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2210170 ER -