Origami silicon optoelectronics for hemispherical electronic eye systems
Abstract
Digital image sensors in hemispherical geometries offer unique imaging advantages over their planar counterparts, such as wide field of view and low aberrations. Deforming miniature semiconductor-based sensors with high-spatial resolution into such format is challenging. Here we report a simple origami approach for fabricating single-crystalline silicon-based focal plane arrays and artificial compound eyes that have hemisphere-like structures. Convex isogonal polyhedral concepts allow certain combinations of polygons to fold into spherical formats. Using each polygon block as a sensor pixel, the silicon-based devices are shaped into maps of truncated icosahedron and fabricated on flexible sheets and further folded either into a concave or convex hemisphere. These two electronic eye prototypes represent simple and low-cost methods as well as flexible optimization parameters in terms of pixel density and design. Results demonstrated in this work combined with miniature size and simplicity of the design establish practical technology for integration with conventional electronic devices.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Wisconsin Inst. for Discovery
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Presidential Early Career Award in Science & Engineering (PECASE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1529347
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1545609
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0002915; FA9550-09-1-0482
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Zhang, Kan, Jung, Yei Hwan, Mikael, Solomon, Seo, Jung-Hun, Kim, Munho, Mi, Hongyi, Zhou, Han, Xia, Zhenyang, Zhou, Weidong, Gong, Shaoqin, and Ma, Zhenqiang. Origami silicon optoelectronics for hemispherical electronic eye systems. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01926-1.
Zhang, Kan, Jung, Yei Hwan, Mikael, Solomon, Seo, Jung-Hun, Kim, Munho, Mi, Hongyi, Zhou, Han, Xia, Zhenyang, Zhou, Weidong, Gong, Shaoqin, & Ma, Zhenqiang. Origami silicon optoelectronics for hemispherical electronic eye systems. United States. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01926-1.
Zhang, Kan, Jung, Yei Hwan, Mikael, Solomon, Seo, Jung-Hun, Kim, Munho, Mi, Hongyi, Zhou, Han, Xia, Zhenyang, Zhou, Weidong, Gong, Shaoqin, and Ma, Zhenqiang. Fri .
"Origami silicon optoelectronics for hemispherical electronic eye systems". United States. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01926-1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1529347.
@article{osti_1529347,
title = {Origami silicon optoelectronics for hemispherical electronic eye systems},
author = {Zhang, Kan and Jung, Yei Hwan and Mikael, Solomon and Seo, Jung-Hun and Kim, Munho and Mi, Hongyi and Zhou, Han and Xia, Zhenyang and Zhou, Weidong and Gong, Shaoqin and Ma, Zhenqiang},
abstractNote = {Digital image sensors in hemispherical geometries offer unique imaging advantages over their planar counterparts, such as wide field of view and low aberrations. Deforming miniature semiconductor-based sensors with high-spatial resolution into such format is challenging. Here we report a simple origami approach for fabricating single-crystalline silicon-based focal plane arrays and artificial compound eyes that have hemisphere-like structures. Convex isogonal polyhedral concepts allow certain combinations of polygons to fold into spherical formats. Using each polygon block as a sensor pixel, the silicon-based devices are shaped into maps of truncated icosahedron and fabricated on flexible sheets and further folded either into a concave or convex hemisphere. These two electronic eye prototypes represent simple and low-cost methods as well as flexible optimization parameters in terms of pixel density and design. Results demonstrated in this work combined with miniature size and simplicity of the design establish practical technology for integration with conventional electronic devices.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-01926-1},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {11}
}
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