Tape transfer printing of a liquid metal alloy for stretchable RF electronics

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 16311-16321

  Jeong, Seung Hee ^a   Hjort, Klas ^a   Wu, Zhigang ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Liquid metal alloy; Microfluidic stretchable electronics; Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag; Stretchable RF electronics; Tape transfer printing

Indexed keywords

RADIO-FREQUENCY-IDENTIFICATION TAGS (RFID); RF ELECTRONICS; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS; TRANSFER PRINTING;

EID: 84907486627     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140916311     Document Type: Article

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