Seminar Schedule – Spring 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Time: 3:30pm
Place: WRW 102
Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics
Yonggang Huang – Northwestern University
Recent advances in mechanics and materials provide routes to integrated circuits that can offer the electrical properties of conventional, rigid wafer-based technologies but with the ability to be stretched, compressed, twisted, bent and deformed into arbitrary shapes. Inorganic electronic materials in micro/nanostructured forms, intimately integrated with elastomeric substrates offer particularly attractive characteristics in such systems, with realistic pathways to sophisticated embodiments. Mechanics plays a key role in this development by identifying the underlying mechanism and providing analytical solutions to guide design and fabrication. I will present our research on stretchable silicon [1] and its applications to stretchable and foldable circuits [2], electronic-eye camera [3,4], semi-transparent and flexible LED [5], epidermal electronics [6], dissolvable electronics [7], injectable, cellular-scale optoelectronics [8], and soft, microfluidic assemblies of sensors, circuits and radios [9]. Review of stretchable electronics has been published [10].
- Khang et al., Science 311, p 208, 2006.
- Kim et al., Science 320, p 507, 2008 (inner cover article).
- Ko et al., Nature 454, p 748, 2008 (cover article).
- Song et al., Nature 497, 95-99, 2013 (cover article).
- Park et al., Science 325, p 977, 2009.
- Kim et al., Science 333, p 838, 2011.
- Hwang et al., Science 337, 1640-1644, 2012 (cover article).
- Kim et al., Science 340, 211-216, 2013.
- Xu et al., Science 344, 70-74, 2014.
- Rogers et al., Science 327, p 1603, 2010.
For more information, contact Dr. Rui Huang at (512) 471-7558.