Stretchable and soft electronics using liquid metals

MD Dickey - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The use of liquid metals based on gallium for soft and stretchable electronics is discussed.
This emerging class of electronics is motivated, in part, by the new opportunities that arise …

Interfacial tension modulation of liquid metal via electrochemical oxidation

M Song, KE Daniels, A Kiani… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, this progress report summarizes recent studies of electrochemical oxidation to
modulate the interfacial tension of gallium‐based alloys. These liquid alloys have the largest …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid metal actuation by electrical control of interfacial tension

CB Eaker, MD Dickey - Applied Physics Reviews, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
By combining metallic electrical conductivity with low viscosity, liquid metals and liquid metal
alloys offer new and exciting opportunities to serve as reconfigurable components of …

A reconfigurable antenna with beam steering and beamwidth variability for wireless communications

MA Towfiq, I Bahceci, S Blanch… - … on Antennas and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reconfigurable antenna (RA) capable of steering its beam into the hemisphere
corresponding to θ∈{-40°, 0°, 40°}, φ∈{0°, 45°, 90°,-45°}, and of changing 3 dB beamwidth …

Continuous electrowetting of non-toxic liquid metal for RF applications

RC Gough, AM Morishita, JH Dang, W Hu… - IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous electrowetting (CEW) is demonstrated to be an effective actuation mechanism
for reconfigurable radio frequency (RF) devices that use non-toxic liquid-metal tuning …

From liquid metal to stretchable electronics: Overcoming the surface tension

Z Yang, D Yang, X Zhao, Q Zhao, M Zhu, Y Liu… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
The field of stretchable electronics mainly includes electronic products conformal with
tissues, being integrated into skin or clothing. Since these products need to work during …

Recent developments and state of the art in flexible and conformal reconfigurable antennas

B Mohamadzade, RBVB Simorangkir, S Maric… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reconfigurable antennas have gained tremendous interest owing to their multifunctional
capabilities while adhering to minimalistic space requirements in ever-shrinking electronics …

A tip-extending soft robot enables reconfigurable and deployable antennas

LH Blumenschein, LT Gan, JA Fan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Antennas are essential in wireless communications and powering systems. Applications,
such as search and rescue and space exploration would greatly benefit from antenna …

A multistate frequency reconfigurable monopole antenna using fluidic channels

A Singh, I Goode, CE Saavedra - IEEE Antennas and Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reconfigurable microstrip monopole antenna that uses three closely spaced substrate
milled channels filled with either air or dielectric fluid is presented. Based on the number of …

Fluidics in microwave components

K Entesari, AP Saghati - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the efforts of various research groups over the past decade in the area of tunable
microwave passive components, the idea of tunability has become very well established …