Issue 9, 2007
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Structural forms of single crystal semiconductor nanoribbons for high-performance stretchable electronics

Yugang Sun*a  and  John A. Rogers*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois, USA
E-mail: ygsun@anl.gov
Fax: (+1) 630-252-4646

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Beckman Institute and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
E-mail: jrogers@uiuc.edu
Fax: (+1) 217-244-2278

Abstract

This feature article reviews some concepts for forming single-crystalline semiconductor nanoribbons in ‘stretchable’ geometrical configurations with emphasis on the materials and surface chemistries used in their fabrication and the mechanics of their response to applied strains. As implemented with ribbons that have periodic or aperiodic sinusoidal ‘wavy’ or ‘buckled’ shapes and are surface chemically bonded to elastomeric poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) supports, these concepts enable levels of mechanical stretchability (and compressibility) that exceed, by orders of magnitude, the intrinsic fracture strains in the ribbon materials themselves. These results, in combination with active functional device elements that can be formed on the surfaces of these ‘wavy’ or ‘buckled’ ribbons, represent a class of potentially valuable building blocks for stretchable electronics, with application possibilities in personal or structural health monitors, sensory skins, spherically curved focal plane arrays and other systems that cannot be achieved easily with other approaches.

Graphical abstract: Structural forms of single crystal semiconductor nanoribbons for high-performance stretchable electronics

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B614793C
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
11 Oct 2006
Accepted
11 Jan 2007
First published
25 Jan 2007

J. Mater. Chem., 2007,17, 832-840

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