Transfer printing techniques for materials assembly and micro/nanodevice fabrication

A Carlson, AM Bowen, Y Huang, RG Nuzzo… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Transfer printing represents a set of techniques for deterministic assembly of micro‐and
nanomaterials into spatially organized, functional arrangements with two and three …

Recent advances in large-scale assembly of semiconducting inorganic nanowires and nanofibers for electronics, sensors and photovoltaics

YZ Long, M Yu, B Sun, CZ Gu, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconducting inorganic nanowires (NWs), nanotubes and nanofibers have been
extensively explored in recent years as potential building blocks for nanoscale electronics …

Size effects on elasticity, yielding, and fracture of silver nanowires: In situ experiments

Y Zhu, Q Qin, F Xu, F Fan, Y Ding, T Zhang… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
This paper reports the quantitative measurement of a full spectrum of mechanical properties
of fivefold twinned silver (Ag) nanowires (NWs), including Young's modulus, yield strength …

Direct writing of flexible electronics through room temperature liquid metal ink

Y Gao, H Li, J Liu - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Conventional approaches of making a flexible circuit are generally complex,
environment unfriendly, time and energy consuming, and thus expensive. Here, we describe …

Large-scale integration of semiconductor nanowires for high-performance flexible electronics

X Liu, YZ Long, L Liao, X Duan, Z Fan - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
High-performance flexible electronics has attracted much attention in recent years due to
potential applications in flexible displays, artificial skin, radio frequency identification, sensor …

The art of aligning one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures

B Su, Y Wu, L Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, including polymeric, small molecule and inorganic
types, are currently being investigated in great detail for their unique mechanical, optical …

[PDF][PDF] Buckling of aligned carbon nanotubes as stretchable conductors: A new manufacturing strategy

Y Zhu, F Xu - Advanced Materials, 2012 - Citeseer
Stretchable conductors (interconnects and electrodes) play a key role in the development of
stretchable electronics, sensors and energy harvesting/storage devices.[1] Carbon …

Inorganic semiconductor nanomaterials for flexible and stretchable bio-integrated electronics

DH Kim, N Lu, R Ghaffari, JA Rogers - NPG Asia Materials, 2012 - nature.com
Rapid advances in semiconductor nanomaterials, techniques for their assembly, and
strategies for incorporation into functional systems now enable sophisticated modes of …

Elastomer surfaces with directionally dependent adhesion strength and their use in transfer printing with continuous roll‐to‐roll applications

SY Yang, A Carlson, H Cheng, Q Yu… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Transfer printing has proven to be a versatile tool for deterministic assembly of two and three
dimensional structures of diverse materials, with feature sizes from the cm to the nm range.[1 …

Fabrication of flexible and vertical silicon nanowire electronics

JM Weisse, CH Lee, DR Kim, X Zheng - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
Vertical silicon nanowire (SiNW) array devices directly connected on both sides to metallic
contacts were fabricated on various non-Si-based substrates (eg, glass, plastics, and metal …