(ANI): The notion that silicon can be used in such applications is surprising because it is intrinsically brittle and rigid. By
structural configurations and carefully optimized mechanical designs, researchers can use silicon in integrated circuits that are fully foldable and resilient.
The new design and manufacturing strategies could produce systems for medical therapies and monitoring of personal health that can be used as clothing, or systems capable of wrapping mechanical parts such as wings and fuselage of aircraft to monitor structural properties.
In 2005, John Rogers, Professor of Science and Engineering of Materials at the University of Illinois, and his research group were able to develop a form of silicon rubber. That configuration allows reversible stretching in one direction without significantly altering the electrical properties.
Now, Roger and his colleagues at the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, and Institute of Computing High Performance in Singapore have managed to extend this basic concept to many other directions, and a much more sophisticated systems to produce fully functional integrated circuits.
The researchers constructed integrated circuits consisting of transistors, oscillators, logic gates and amplifiers. The circuits exhibited extreme levels of flexibility and elasticity, with electronic properties comparable to those of similar circuits built on conventional silicon wafers.
The new design and construction strategy represents a general and scalable route to foldable electronic devices and high-performance elastic, which can incorporate inorganic electronic materials useful features and well known, but too fragile and brittle to make it viable to use them that way without the help of this innovative strategy.
structural configurations and carefully optimized mechanical designs, researchers can use silicon in integrated circuits that are fully foldable and resilient.
The new design and manufacturing strategies could produce systems for medical therapies and monitoring of personal health that can be used as clothing, or systems capable of wrapping mechanical parts such as wings and fuselage of aircraft to monitor structural properties.
In 2005, John Rogers, Professor of Science and Engineering of Materials at the University of Illinois, and his research group were able to develop a form of silicon rubber. That configuration allows reversible stretching in one direction without significantly altering the electrical properties.
Now, Roger and his colleagues at the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, and Institute of Computing High Performance in Singapore have managed to extend this basic concept to many other directions, and a much more sophisticated systems to produce fully functional integrated circuits.
The researchers constructed integrated circuits consisting of transistors, oscillators, logic gates and amplifiers. The circuits exhibited extreme levels of flexibility and elasticity, with electronic properties comparable to those of similar circuits built on conventional silicon wafers.
The new design and construction strategy represents a general and scalable route to foldable electronic devices and high-performance elastic, which can incorporate inorganic electronic materials useful features and well known, but too fragile and brittle to make it viable to use them that way without the help of this innovative strategy.
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