Journal
MRS BULLETIN
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 226-235Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2012.36
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- Beckman Institute
- Global Frontier Research Center for Advanced Soft Electronics
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [824129] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Inorganic semiconductors such as silicon, gallium arsenide, and gallium nitride provide, by far, the most well-established routes to high performance electronics/optoelectronics. Although these materials are intrinsically rigid and brittle, when exploited in strategic geometrical designs guided by mechanics modeling, they can be combined with elastomeric supports to yield integrated devices that offer linear elastic responses to large strain (similar to 100%) deformations. The result is an electronics/optoelectronics technology that offers the performance of conventional wafer-based systems, but with the mechanics of a rubberband. This article summarizes the key enabling concepts in materials, mechanics, and assembly and illustrates them through representative applications, ranging from electronic eyeball cameras to advanced surgical devices and epidermal electronic monitoring systems.
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