Abstract: Microtransfer printing is rapidly emerging as an effective method for heterogeneous materials integration. Laser microtransfer printing (LMTP) is a noncontact variant of the process that uses laser heating to drive the ...

Abstract: The multilayer beam consisted of materials with extremely different elastic properties, such as silicon and Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), has many important applications. The Kirchhoff assumption that the straight lines ...

Abstract: Transfer printing is an emerging process that enables microand nanoscale heterogeneous materials integration for applications such as flexible displays, biocompatible sensors, stretchable electronics, and others. It transfers ...

Abstract: The widely used steadystate energy release rate G = F/w is extended to account for the elastic energy of deformed compliant stamps, e.g., lowmodulus poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS). An analytical expression for the ...

Abstract: Stretchable electronics offer soft, biocompatible mechanical properties; these same properties make them susceptible to device failure associated with physical impact. This paper studies designs for stretchable electronics ...

Abstract: A mechanics model is developed for the encapsulated piezoelectric thinfilm actuators/sensors system imperfectly bonded to the human skin to simultaneously determine the Young's moduli of the epidermis and dermis as well ...

Abstract: Singlewalled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are of significant interest in the electronic materials research community due to their excellent electrical properties and many promising applications. However, SWNTs grow as mixture ...

Abstract: The trench design of substrate together with curvy interconnect formed from buckling provides a solution to stretchable electronics with high areal coverage on an ultrathin substrate, which are critically important for ...

Abstract: A tunable hemispherical imaging system with zoom capability was recently developed by exploiting heterogeneous integration of rigid silicon photodetectors on soft, elastomeric supports, in designs that can facilitate tunable ...

Abstract: Vibrational microplatforms that exploit complex three-dimensional (3D) architectures assembled via the controlled compressive buckling technique represent promising candidates in 3D micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), ...