Fractal design concepts for stretchable electronics

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fan, Jonathan A ^a,b   Yeo, Woon Hong ^a,c   Su, Yewang ^d,e   Hattori, Yoshiaki ^a   Lee, Woosik ^a   Jung, Sung Young ^f   Zhang, Yihui ^d,e   Liu, Zhuangjian ^g   Cheng, Huanyu ^d   Falgout, Leo ^a   Bajema, Mike ^h   Coleman, Todd ^h   Gregoire, Dan ⁱ   Larsen, Ryan J ^b   Huang, Yonggang ^d   Rogers, John A ^a,b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

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

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^g INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

ⁱ Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; SILICON;

DESIGN; ELASTICITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; ELECTRONICS; FILM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MECHANICS; MONITOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDERMIS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTRONICS; EPIDERMIS; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943194466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4266     Document Type: Article

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