Issue 16, 2011

Isotropically stretchable gold conductors on elastomeric substrates

Abstract

Designers of stretchable circuits need to orient stretchable interconnects in any direction. Conductors of gold film deposited on radially pre-stretched elastomeric substrates meet this condition because their wrinkles are oriented randomly. The continuous nature of those conductors makes them attractive as large area electrodes in thin film electronics. The electrical resistance of such conductors changes less with applied uniaxial strain than that of microcracked gold films and of an ideal strain gauge.

Graphical abstract: Isotropically stretchable gold conductors on elastomeric substrates

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Apr 2011
Accepted
21 Jun 2011
First published
05 Jul 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 7177-7180

Isotropically stretchable gold conductors on elastomeric substrates

P. Görrn, W. Cao and S. Wagner, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7177 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05705G

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