© 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 464 wileyonlinelibrary.com fl exible nature, impossible within the confi nes of rigid and planar substrates. Stretchable RF electronics not only enable applications in which circuits can be wrapped conformally around complex curvilinear shapes or biological tissues, such as in body-worn wireless sensor nodes, [ 1,2 ] and wearable radio frequency...

Rapid growth of stretchable electronics stimulates broad uses in multidisciplinary fields as well as industrial applications. However, existing technologies are unsuitable for implementing versatile applications involving adaptable system design and functions in a cost/time-effective way because of vacuum-conditioned, lithographically-predefined processes. Here, we present a methodology for a f...

Stretchable devices with good transparency offer exciting new applications over the existing technologies, but remarkable difficulties remain in the fabrication of transparent and stretchable devices. In this paper, we report an effective method to fabricate transparent elastic photodetectors which combines the merits of the transparent polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer with its stretchabilit...

Two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, are attractive for both conventional semiconductor applications and nascent applications in flexible electronics. However, the high tensile strength of graphene results in fracturing at low strain, making it challenging to take advantage of its extraordinary electronic properties in stretchable electronics. To enable excellent strain-dependent perfor...

This article introduces a soft and stretchable sensor composed of silicone rubber integrating a conductive liquidfilled channel with a biocompatible sodium chloride (NaCl) solution and novel stretchable gold sputtered electrodes to facilitate the biocompatibility of the sensor. By stretching the sensor, the cross section of the channel deforms, thus leading to a change in electrical resistance....

Recently, various future devices including microelectronics and bioimplantable devices have been designed as curvilinear layouts on curved or stretchable surfaces of skin or organs. [ 1–4 ] Silicon and polymer-based organics have been used primarily for commercial fl at/rigid electronics and for curvilinear fl exible/stretchable electronics. [ 2 , 5 ] However, 1D materials such as nanowires (NW...

Flexible, stretchable electroluminescent fibers are of significance to meet the escalating requirements of increasing complexity and multifunctionality of smart electronics. We report a stretchable alternating current electroluminescent (ACEL) fiber by a low-cost and all solution-processed scalable process. The ACEL fiber provides high stretchability, decent light-emitting performance, with exc...

We have developed a highly stretchable tactile distribution sensor which requires no wiring in the sensing area by applying Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), a non-invasive tomography technique, on a stretchable conductive structure. We have shown that our proposed stretchable conductive structure can significantly improve the quality of pressure distribution measurements over dynamically ...

Flexible and stretchable microscale fluidic devices have a broad range of potential applications, ranging from electronic wearable devices for convenient digital lifestyle to biomedical devices. However, simple ways to achieve stable flexible and stretchable fluidic microchannels with dynamic liquid transport have been challenging because every application for elastomeric microchannels is restr...