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Title: Flexible and stretchable electronic systems for epidermal electronics

Abstract

Provided herein are skin-mounted biomedical devices and methods of making and using biomedical devices for sensing and actuation applications. For example, flexible and/or stretchable biomedical devices are provided, including electronic devices useful for establishing conformal contact with the skin of a subject. Devices disclosed herein can comprise a plurality of sensing and/or actuating devices provided as part of a skin-mounted flexible or stretchable electronic circuit.

Inventors:
;
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1600139
Patent Number(s):
10441185
Application Number:
13/492,636
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61B - DIAGNOSIS
A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-07ER46453; FG02-07ER46471; FG02-91ER45439
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 06/08/2012
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; 42 ENGINEERING; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Rogers, John A., and Kim, Dae-Hyeong. Flexible and stretchable electronic systems for epidermal electronics. United States: N. p., 2019. Web.
Rogers, John A., & Kim, Dae-Hyeong. Flexible and stretchable electronic systems for epidermal electronics. United States.
Rogers, John A., and Kim, Dae-Hyeong. Tue . "Flexible and stretchable electronic systems for epidermal electronics". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1600139.
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Polymer-controlled growth of Sb2Se3 nanoribbons via a hydrothermal process
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Strained semiconductor by full wafer bonding
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Ultrathin Silicon Circuits With Strain-Isolation Layers and Mesh Layouts for High-Performance Electronics on Fabric, Vinyl, Leather, and Paper
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Buckled and Wavy Ribbons of GaAs for High-Performance Electronics on Elastomeric Substrates
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Vapor-liquid-solid mechanism of single crystal growth
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Design and Performance of Inkjet Print Heads for Non-Graphic-Arts Applications
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Lateral growth of single wall carbon nanotubes on various substrates by means of an “all-laser” synthesis approach
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Inkjet Printing of Functional Materials
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One-Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications
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High-mobility polymer gate dielectric pentacene thin film transistors
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Controlled Buckling Structures in Semiconductor Interconnects and Nanomembranes for Stretchable Electronics
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Structures of quartz (100)- and (101)-water interfaces determined by x-ray reflectivity and atomic force microscopy of natural growth surfaces
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Application of carbon nanotubes to field emission displays
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Vectorial Growth of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
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Analog and digital circuits using organic thin-film transistors on polyester substrates
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3-D ICs: a novel chip design for improving deep-submicrometer interconnect performance and systems-on-chip integration
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Cell adhesion
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One-dimensional hole gas in germanium/silicon nanowire heterostructures
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Methods and Devices for Fabricating and Assembling Printable Semiconductor Elements
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Functionalized silicon membranes for selective bio-organism capture
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Collapse of stamps for soft lithography due to interfacial adhesion
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Surface-functionalized inorganic semiconductor particles as electrical semiconductors for microelectronics applications
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Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers
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Measurement of hydration in the stratum corneum with the MoistureMeter and comparison with the Corneometer
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Applications and equipment of substrate stiffness method and resulting devices for layer transfer processes on quartz or glass
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Biocompatible mesoporous silica nanoparticles with different morphologies for animal cell membrane penetration
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Heat-transfer-stamp process for thermal imprint lithography
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The effect of oxygen ratio on the crystallography and optical emission properties of reactive RF sputtered ZnO films
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Characterization of flexible ECoG electrode arrays for chronic recording in awake rats
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Process method of using excimer laser for forming micro spherical and non-spherical polymeric structure array
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Rontgen's electrode-free elastomer actuators without electromechanical pull-in instability
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Concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solution and use thereof
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Printed thin-film transistors and complementary logic gates that use polymer-coated single-walled carbon nanotube networks
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Preparation of thin-film transistors with chemical bath deposited CdSe and CdS thin films
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Catalytic Amplification of the Soft Lithographic Patterning of Si. Nonelectrochemical Orthogonal Fabrication of Photoluminescent Porous Si Pixel Arrays
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Surface instability of rubber in compression
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Method and device for bio-impedance measurement with hard-tissue applications
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Electrically Induced Optical Emission from a Carbon Nanotube FET
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The biocompatibility of mesoporous silicates
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Stability of molded polydimethylsiloxane microstructures
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Adhesion at the Solid-Elastomer Interface: Influence of the Interfacial Chains
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Conducting elastomer surface texturing: a path to electrode spotting
journal, September 2004


Using an elastomeric phase mask for sub-100 nm photolithography in the optical near field
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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Plaque Characterization
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Logic Circuits with Carbon Nanotube Transistors
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Effect of diamondlike carbon coating and surface topography on the performance of metal evaporated magnetic tapes
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Metal nano-void photonic crystal for enhanced raman spectroscopy
patent-application, June 2006


Arrays of Ultrathin Silicon Solar Microcells
patent-application, November 2011


A Conformal, Bio-Interfaced Class of Silicon Electronics for Mapping Cardiac Electrophysiology
journal, March 2010


Implantable, tissue conforming drug delivery device
patent-application, August 2006


The path to ubiquitous and low-cost organic electronic appliances on plastic
journal, April 2004


Fabrication of a Cylindrical Display by Patterned Assembly
journal, April 2002


Effect of mismatch strain on band gap in III‐V semiconductors
journal, June 1985


Machine for mixing and distributing products used to feed livestock
patent-application, June 2004


Large-Scale Hierarchical Organization of Nanowire Arrays for Integrated Nanosystems
journal, September 2003


Band Structure, Phonon Scattering, and the Performance Limit of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors
journal, September 2005


Amorphous silicon detector and thin film transistor technology for large-area imaging of X-rays
journal, December 2000


Performance enhancement of InGaN light-emitting diodes by laser lift-off and transfer from sapphire to copper substrate
journal, April 2004


Spatially Selective Guided Growth of High-Coverage Arrays and Random Networks of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Integration into Electronic Devices
journal, April 2006


Alpha-particle protection of semiconductor devices
patent, August 1988


Oxide-Assisted Growth of Semiconducting Nanowires
journal, April 2003


Printable semiconductor structures and related methods of making and assembling
patent, March 2013


Methods of positioning and/or orienting nanostructures
patent, March 2005


Ink-Jet Printing, Self-Assembled Polyelectrolytes, and Electroless Plating: Low Cost Fabrication of Circuits on a Flexible Substrate at Room Temperature
journal, February 2005


Wafer-scale integration of GaAs optoelectronic devices with standard Si integrated circuits using a low-temperature bonding procedure
journal, December 2002


Improved Pattern Transfer in Soft Lithography Using Composite Stamps
journal, June 2002


Electromechanical coupling and output efficiency of piezoelectric bending actuators
journal, May 1999

  • Wang, Qing-Ming; Du, Xiao-Hong; Xu, Baomin
  • IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 46, Issue 3, p. 638-646
  • https://doi.org/10.1109/58.764850

III–V micromachined devices for microsystems
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Compliant thin film patterns of stiff materials as platforms for stretchable electronics
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Diamond heat spreading and cooling technique for integrated circuits
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Weave Patterned Organic Transistors on Fiber for E-Textiles
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Implantable Biomedical Devices On Bioresorbable Substrates
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Dipole analysis of event-related oscillations in anticipation processes
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Silicon for thin-film transistors
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Spatial fluctuations of optical emission from single ZnO/MgZnO nanowire quantum wells
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Method and apparatus for transferring blocks
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Applications
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Stretchable gold conductors on elastomeric substrates
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Template-Free Directional Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on a- and r-Plane Sapphire
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The Role of Metal−Nanotube Contact in the Performance of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors
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Electrocorticography telemitter
patent-application, June 2006


Measuring depth depends on frequency in electrical skin impedance measurements
journal, August 1999


Mechanically flexible thin-film transistors that use ultrathin ribbons of silicon derived from bulk wafers
journal, May 2006


Bendable integrated circuits on plastic substrates by use of printed ribbons of single-crystalline silicon
journal, May 2007


Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons for stretchable electronics
journal, December 2006


Masterless Soft Lithography:  Patterning UV/Ozone−Induced Adhesion on Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Surfaces
journal, October 2005


III-V compounds for solar cell applications
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Templated Self-Assembly: Formation of Folded Structures by Relaxation of Pre-stressed, Planar Tapes
journal, March 2005


Design of metal interconnects for stretchable electronic circuits
journal, June 2008


Fabrication of three-dimensional polymer photonic crystal structures using single diffraction element interference lithography
journal, March 2003


On-chip natural assembly of silicon photonic bandgap crystals
journal, November 2001


Fibrous Protein Fusions and Use Thereof in the Formation of Advanced Organic/Inorganic Composite Materials
patent-application, November 2008


Fabricating Semiconductor Nano/Microwires and Transfer Printing Ordered Arrays of Them onto Plastic Substrates
journal, October 2004


Transparent flexible organic thin-film transistors that use printed single-walled carbon nanotube electrodes
journal, March 2006


Synthesis of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes on patterned silicon wafers
journal, October 1998


Nanowire Transistor Performance Limits and Applications
journal, November 2008


An experimental study of the source/drain parasitic resistance effects in amorphous silicon thin film transistors
journal, July 1992


Photonic Band Gaps Based on Tetragonal Lattices of Slanted Pores
journal, June 2003


The influence of helium-neon laser irradiation on the viability of skin flaps in the rat
journal, January 2000


Ballistic carbon nanotube field-effect transistors
journal, August 2003


The Adhesion Between Polymers
journal, August 1991


Composite patterning devices for soft lithography
patent, March 2007


Effect of strain rate on the fracture behaviour of skin
journal, September 1994


Method of making thin silicon sheets for solar cells
patent, January 2007


Field-Effect Mobility of Organic Polymer Thin-Film Transistors
journal, October 2004


Lattice-Oriented Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
journal, July 2000


Electrospinning of Nanofibers: Reinventing the Wheel?
journal, July 2004


Surface mount and flip chip technology for total integrated circuit isolation
patent, May 1998


Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics
journal, April 2010


Methods to fabricate thin film transistors and circuits
patent, May 2001


Semiconductor Device and Method of Fabricating the Same
patent-application, April 2009


The effect of silicon on the glass forming ability of the Cu47Ti34Zr11Ni8 bulk metallic glass forming alloy during processing of composites
journal, June 1998


Flexible Carbon-Nanofiber Connectors with Anisotropic Adhesion Properties
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Thermal conductivity of PET/(LDPE/AI) composites determined by MDSC
journal, September 2004


Method for Forming Inorganic Coatings
patent-application, August 2010


Thermal interface with silver-filled carbon nanotubes
patent, December 2006


Biopolymer Optical Waveguide and Method of Manufacturing the Same
patent-application, March 2010


An improved GaAs device model for the simulation of analog integrated circuit
journal, May 2003


Miniaturized, on-head, invasive electrode connector integrated EEG data acquisition system
journal, July 2007