Stretchable and Foldable Silicon Integrated Circuits

@article{Kim2008StretchableAF,
  title={Stretchable and Foldable Silicon Integrated Circuits},
  author={Dae-Hyeong Kim and Jong-Hyun Ahn and Won Mook Choi and Hoon-sik Kim and Tae-Ho Kim and Jizhou Song and Yonggang Huang and Zhuangjian Liu and Chun Mei Lu and John A. Rogers},
  journal={Science},
  year={2008},
  volume={320},
  pages={507 - 511}
}
We have developed a simple approach to high-performance, stretchable, and foldable integrated circuits. The systems integrate inorganic electronic materials, including aligned arrays of nanoribbons of single crystalline silicon, with ultrathin plastic and elastomeric substrates. The designs combine multilayer neutral mechanical plane layouts and “wavy” structural configurations in silicon complementary logic gates, ring oscillators, and differential amplifiers. We performed three-dimensional… 
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