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Title: Stretchable and foldable electronic devices

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OSTI ID:1568353
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Disclosed herein are stretchable, foldable and optionally printable, processes for making devices and devices such as semiconductors, electronic circuits and components thereof that are capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Strain isolation layers provide good strain isolation to functional device layers. Multilayer devices are constructed to position a neutral mechanical surface coincident or proximate to a functional layer having a material that is susceptible to strain-induced failure. Neutral mechanical surfaces are positioned by one or more layers having a property that is spatially inhomogeneous, such as by patterning any of the layers of the multilayer device.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
DMI-0328162; ECCS-0824129; FG02-07ER46453; FG02-07ER46471; FG02-91ER45439
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL); Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Patent Number(s):
10,292,261
Application Number:
14/706,733
OSTI ID:
1568353
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 05/07/2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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