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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"flexible electronic"”.
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Graphene-based heterostructures for strain-tunable and mechanically flexible electronic sensors
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Microplasma-driven, atomic layer deposition of flexible electronic and photonic nanofilms
… to the deposition of a-Ga2O3 on PET substrate, a flexible deep ultraviolet (DUV) photodetector was successfully fabricated. Based on the Tauc law calculation with transmittance of grown film as a function of wavelength, a-Ga2O3 bandgap was measured ~ 5.35 eV, indicating higher photo response at …
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Investigation of Thermo-conformational Atributes of Flexible Nanocellulose Films for Electronic Devices
We live in a world where electronics play a pivotal role in our daily life. Nanoscale functional materials can be used to create electronic devices that are highly energy-efficient in their use, such as OLED lights, flexible monitors screens and solar panels. The huge demand for electronic products …
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Materials Strategies and Devices for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
However, even flexible electronic devices with the simple mechanical bendability described above, not to mention conventional wafer-based device technologies, have clear limitations in certain applications on irregular and rugged surfaces, such as those on a wearable computer or various personal …
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Printed microscale mono-crystalline silicon on flexible substrates for photovoltaic, strain sensors, and neural interface applications
In recent years, research in flexible electronic systems has increased due to its potential to create and manipulate new classes of applications (e.g., foldable and flexible display, flexible photovoltaic, epidermal electronics, and other systems) that can be integrated outside of conventional …
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Ultrathin mono-crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells with mechanically flexible and stretchable designs, and light-trapping structures
In recent years, research in flexible electronic systems has paid increasing attention to their potential to create and manipulate new classes of applications (e.g., foldable and flexible display, flexible photovoltaic, epidermal electronics, and other systems) that can be integrated outside of …
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Flexible and foldable single-crystalline silicon electronics for various applications
Much of the existing research in flexible electronic systems based on silicon has focused on improving performance and cost. We are developing soft materials and assembly approaches that enable electronic devices with area coverage, conformal electronics, mechanical properties, or geometrical form …
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Materials and design strategies for flexible electronics
In recent years, flexible electronic systems have gained increasing attention from scientific communities because of their potential to create new classes of applications (e.g. information display, medical diagnostic, X-ray imagers, flexible photovoltaic, flexible displays, structural health …
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Printed microscale inorganic light emitting diodes on flexible substrates for display, biomedical, and robotic applications
Flexible electronics can offer various advantages such as intimate, conformal contacts to curvilinear surfaces and a high level of tolerance to an external strain over the conventional devices integrated on rigid platforms. With suitable choices of materials, design, and integrating strategies, …
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Carbon nanotube films for flexible electronics
… scalable routes to fabricate large scale electronic devices on flexible substrates has been the goal of the newly emerging field of flexible macroelectronics. Thin film transistors (TFTs) have been fabricated on flexible substrates by using organic small-molecule and polymer-based …
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Flexible Electronics: Materials and Device Fabrication
… and fabrication techniques to manufacture flexible electronic devices from them. Conductive ink formulations and inkjet printing of gold and silver on plastic substrates were examined. Line patterning and mask printing methods were also investigated as a means of selective metal deposition …
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Interfacial Properties of Graphene and 2D Materials Heterostructures Investigated by Scanning Probe Microscopy
… for a broad range of applications, including flexible electronic devices, nanocomposites, and transistors. However, in most of these applications the 2D materials need to interface with other materials such as substrates or other 2D heteroststructures for not only device functionality but also …
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Strain sensor array using printed single crystalline silicon on plastic substrate
… of the Colpitts oscillator on the same flexible substrate has great promise for future high speed wireless data acquisition systems.
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Flexible sensors for high-quality recording and human-computer interface
… (SNR) ratio for long-term and stable recording. Flexible devices are emerging. The flexible human-machine interface requires fundamental research in materials, mechanism, device design, and fabrication. This work focuses on developing flexible devices for human-computer interfaces which collect …
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DESIGN, MANUFACTURING, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SOFT, CAPACITIVE ACTUATORS AND ARCHITECTED DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS
… tric elastomer architectures that can serve as flexible metamaterials for adaptive electronics. The unit cell design and porosity of two dielectric elastomeric archi- tectures provides a tuning mechanism for the onset of a mechanical instability in the structure; a shift in effective …
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Design of electrode for electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices using multiwall carbon nanotubes
… applications. LbL-MWNT electrodes show high electronic conductivity in comparison with polymer composites with single wall nanotubes, and high capacitive behavior in aqueous electrolyte with precise control of capacity. Of significance, additive-free LbL-MWNT electrodes with thicknesses of …
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Nanostructure Characterization, Fabrication and Devices of 2D Mos2 and Mos2/WS2 Hetrostructures
… and are promising enough for future high speed flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. Among all the transition metal dichalcogenides, molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) and tungsten disulphide (WS2) are explored most extensively since the last few years because of their complementary nature …
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Thermoelectric Properties of Organic Polymers
… Due to their cost-effectiveness and potential in flexible electronic applications, organic thermoelectrics have attracted considerable attention. Nonetheless, further enhancing their thermoelectric performance remains a great challenge. Solutions have been proposed, encompassing molecular …
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Strengthening of metals using a graphene monolayer
… ranging from tough thin films for use in flexible electronics to the design of advanced aerospace structures. My dissertation addresses the synthesis, understanding and control of these composites and their mechanical properties probed from the nano- to the microscales. To this end, a …
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Light scattering studies of organic field effect transistors
… of enabling new technology based on low cost and flexible electronic devices. While much work has been done in the field of organic semiconductors, the field is still quite immature when compared to that of traditional inorganic based devices. More work is required before the full potential of …
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