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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"stretchable"”.
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Elastic stretchable optical fibers
… manufacture and characterization of elastic stretchable optical fibers. Analogous to conventional optical fibers, the elastic fibers consist of a high index core, made from a polystyrene-polyisoprene triblock copolymer, and a low refractive index cladding, formed by a fluorinated …
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Stretchable, soft, and wireless biomedical electronics
… neural interface. This thesis presents a soft, stretchable, and wireless biomedical electronics system for both skin-mountable and implantable applications. The wireless capability associated with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) allows continuous monitoring in portable devices in user-friendly …
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Printed stretchable strain sensors for plant growth monitoring
… most to the strain sensing range. The most stretchable long horseshoe patterned strain sensor is finally attached to a grass leaf and reaches a maximum operating apparent strain of over 1000%, a new record in plant growth strain sensors. Overall, my thesis focuses on the development of …
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Stretchable music : a graphically rich, interactive composition system
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 1998.
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Materials Strategies and Devices for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
… a simple approach to high performance, stretchable and foldable integrated circuits was developed by integrating aligned arrays of nanoribbons of single crystalline silicon with ultrathin plastic and elastomeric substrates with an unconventional geometry, such as wavy and non-coplanar …
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Aerosol-Jet Printed Nanocomposites for Flexible and Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators
… was used to fabricate free-standing and stretchable TE structures, by printing serpentine patterns of the TE ink onto a sacrificial substrate that was subsequently removed. The TE performance and stretchability under different imposed mechanical conditions were evaluated, including …
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Simulating and calibrating stretchable optical fibers for studying neural dynamics
… of neural dynamics that is flexible and stretchable, leading to minimal harm to surrounding brain tissue. The hydrogel fiber fabrication method is optimized for highest refractive index and lowest autofluorescence for best signal recording precision, and further customized to allow …
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Thermoreflectance for Contactless Sintering Characterization: From Metal Nanoparticles to Stretchable Conductors
… as demonstrated here to create a novel stretchable conductor. Differently sintered layers are combined to achieve a desirable stretchability-conductivity profile.
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Materials and strategies for flexible, stretchable and large area photonic devices
… devices have been realized in flexible and stretchable formats that can open up huge applications in biomedical industry. Other than electronic signals, photons can also interact with matters intensely and provide valuable information about the underlying substrates and immediate medium. …
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Flexible, stretchable, and transient electronics for integration with the human body
Technologies capable of establishing intimate, long-lived interfaces to the human body have broad utility in continuous measurement of physiological status, with the potential to significantly lower tissue injury and irritation after implants. The development of such soft, biocompatible platforms …
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Flexible/stretchable strain gauges based on single-crystalline silicon for biomedical applications
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Stretchable, multimodal, large-area sensor arrays fabricated using excimer laser photoablation technologies
Stretchable, multimodal, large-area sensor arrays can be utilized for many applications such as structural health monitoring of vehicles and infrastructure, tactile feedback for robotics, aerospace research and design, electronic textiles, tactile sensors for flexible displays, and low-cost sensors …
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A modular and stretchable electronic system for on-body health monitoring applications
… limitations, a modular system based on thin and stretchable electronic modules was proposed. To link modules together, a novel four pin sliding connector was designed, fabricated, integrated into an stretchable electronic circuit and characterized. The first part of the thesis focused on …
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Ferroelectric/piezoelectric flexible mechanical energy harvesters and stretchable epidermal sensors for medical applications
… capability, ‘unusual’ formats with flexible/stretchable designs, rugged lightweight construction, and self-powered operation are desired attributes for electronics that directly interface with the human body. The collective results in this dissertation suggest utility in a variety of sensors …
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Flexible and stretchable tactile sensing skins using microwave transmission lines and piezoresistive rubber
… for an inexpensive, durable, wide-area, flexible stretchable skin-like material that can sense pressure and shear. While there exists a variety of tactile skins with impressive sensitivity, resolution, and integration, they are complex, expensive to fabricate, and delicate. This thesis explores …
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Characterization of Flexible Hybrid Electronics Using Stretchable Silver Ink and Ultra-Thin Silicon Die
… characterization and reliability analysis of stretchable conductive inks paired with ultra-thin silicon die in theµm range was conducted. A silver based ink designed to be stretchable was screen printed on a TPU substrate and cured using box oven, conveyor convection oven, and photonic curing …
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Reed-Relay Switched Tuning Circuit for Stretchable RF Coils in Low Field, Portable MRI
While MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) technology allows us to get detailed images of the inside of a subject’s body, it most commonly requires very expensive and large-scale machinery which limits the scenarios it can be used in. These types of costly MRI are usually high-field MRI, which operates …
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Fabrication process and electromechanical characterization of a sliding connector system for modular stretchable electronics
The development of stretchable electronics has opened the potential for novel types of wearable electronic devices that can conform to curvilinear surfaces. In the traditional wearable space, modularity has been explored as a way to make devices customizable and multi-functional. Extending …
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Flexible, stretchable, biointegrated arrays of electronic thermal sensors and actuators for advancements in clinical medicine
… of ultrathin (total thickness <5 µm), flexible, stretchable, skin-conforming devices that map temperatures to a precision (<20 mK) exceeding that of sophisticated infrared cameras for clinical research. We establish the foundational mechanical, electrical and thermal physics and associated design …
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Ultrathin mono-crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells with mechanically flexible and stretchable designs, and light-trapping structures
… solar microcells that are mechanically flexible, stretchable, and semitransparent, formed by anisotropic etching of bulk wafers and integrated onto unusual substrates.
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