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The photonic device function is limited when flexibility and curvature features are requested in operation, and they also have rare applications as epidermal sensors. This dissertation aim to demonstrate functional photonic devices in a flexible and stretchable format by using unconventional fabrication techniques such as soft nanoimprint lithography and nanotransfer printing etc. One example is fabricating flexible, large area, multilayerd negative index metamaterials which are unattainable with conventional fabrication techniques and have high figure of merit in the visible range of operation. Optical modeling by finite domain time domain simulations will be incorporated to achieve optimized device design. Similarly, large area and highly stretchable plasmonic nanoparticle arrays will be obtained to show large resonance tuning for the first time with unusual three dimensional buckled structure beyond critical strain. 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The photonic device function is limited when flexibility and curvature features are requested in operation, and they also have rare applications as epidermal sensors. This dissertation aim to demonstrate functional photonic devices in a flexible and stretchable format by using unconventional fabrication techniques such as soft nanoimprint lithography and nanotransfer printing etc. One example is fabricating flexible, large area, multilayerd negative index metamaterials which are unattainable with conventional fabrication techniques and have high figure of merit in the visible range of operation. Optical modeling by finite domain time domain simulations will be incorporated to achieve optimized device design. Similarly, large area and highly stretchable plasmonic nanoparticle arrays will be obtained to show large resonance tuning for the first time with unusual three dimensional buckled structure beyond critical strain. The mechanics and plasmonic resonance associated with such large strains will be investigated by both experiment and analytical modeling. 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