Friday, April 4, 2008

Electronic Circuits That Bend and Stretch


The new circuits, developed by a team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign led by Professor John A. Rogers, are built from ribbons of silicon only a few nanometers thick that are mounted on flexible plastic substrates.


SHRINK, WRAP: : This circuit sheet [LEFT] has not aged rapidly. The wrinkles make it possible to stretch the sheet over a sphere or an irregularly shaped object without breaking the sheet or damaging its current-conducting structures. To wrap circuits around a rod as thin as a strand of hair [RIGHT], the researchers made them superthin.
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