Inorganic materials and assembly techniques for flexible and stretchable electronics

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 619-632

  He, Junwen ^a   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^b   Rogers, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio integrated electronics; flexible electronics; inorganic materials; integrated systems; stretchable electronics; transfer printing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ENERGY CONVERSION; HYBRID MATERIALS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

INORGANIC MATERIALS; INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS; TRANSFER PRINTING;

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84930197366     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2396991     Document Type: Article

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