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Materials and noncoplanar mesh designs for integrated circuits with linear elastic responses to extreme mechanical deformations

Journal Article · · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); University of Illinois
  2. Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (United States)
  3. Samsung Advanced Inst. of Technology, Gyeonggi-Do (Korea, Republic of)
  4. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  5. Inst. of High Performance Computing, Connexis (Singapore)
  6. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  7. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
  8. Inst. of High Performance Computing, Connexis (Singapore); National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
Electronic systems that offer elastic mechanical responses to high-strain deformations are of growing interest because of their ability to enable new biomedical devices and other applications whose requirements are impossible to satisfy with conventional wafer-based technologies or even with those that offer simple bendability. This article introduces materials and mechanical design strategies for classes of electronic circuits that offer extremely high stretchability, enabling them to accommodate even demanding configurations such as corkscrew twists with tight pitch (e.g., 90° in ≈1 cm) and linear stretching to “rubber-band” levels of strain (e.g., up to ≈140%). The use of single crystalline silicon nanomaterials for the semiconductor provides performance in stretchable complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits approaching that of conventional devices with comparable feature sizes formed on silicon wafers. Comprehensive theoretical studies of the mechanics reveal the way in which the structural designs enable these extreme mechanical properties without fracturing the intrinsically brittle active materials or even inducing significant changes in their electrical properties. The results, as demonstrated through electrical measurements of arrays of transistors, CMOS inverters, ring oscillators, and differential amplifiers, suggest a valuable route to high-performance stretchable electronics.
Research Organization:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-07ER46453; FG02-07ER46471
OSTI ID:
1875540
Journal Information:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Issue: 48 Vol. 105; ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of SciencesCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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