LinkNotes: Foldable and stretchable circuits

About a new type of ultra-thin integrated circuits that can operate during deformations without a reduction in electrical performance.

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Circuit boards that bend and stretch created

Scientists have created ultra-thin electronic circuit boards that can be bent, stretched and folded.

The new component boards could prove useful in wearable health monitors, surgical gloves and other applications in which they can be wrapped into unusual shapes such as body parts, aircraft wings or fuselages.

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Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes

Circuit diagram (top frame) and optical images of a stretchable, "wavy" silicon ring oscillator circuit on a rubber substrate, in the "as fabricated" flat state (top micrograph) and in moderate and high states of biaxial compression (middle and bottom micrographs, respectively). Photo courtesy John Rogers

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