Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Flexible Technologies

CHAPTER 10

Mechanics of Stiff Thin Filmsof Controlled Wavy Geometryon Compliant Substrates forStretchable Electronics

Jianliang Xiao¹, Hanqing Jiang², Yonggang Huang^1,3 and John A. Rogers⁴

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

²Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

³Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

⁴Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute, and Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, USA

CONTENTS

Introduction

Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons

Stretchable and compressible stiff thin ...