Recent Advances in 1D Stretchable Electrodes and Devices for Textile and Wearable Electronics: Materials,Fabrications, and Applications

Research on wearable electronic devices that can be directly integrated into daily textiles or clothes has been explosively grown holding great potential for various practical wearable applications. These wearable electronic devices strongly demand 1D electronic devices that are light–weight, weavable, highly flexible, stretchable, and adaptable to comport to frequent deformations during usage in daily life. To this end, the development of 1D electrodes with high stretchability and electrical performance is fundamentally essential. Herein, the recent process of 1D stretchable electrodes for wearable and textile electronics is described, focusing on representative conductive materials, fabrication techniques for 1D stretchable electrodes with high performance, and designs and applications of various 1D stretchable electronic devices. To conclude, discussions are presented regarding limitations and perspectives of current materials and devices in terms of performance and scientific understanding that should be considered for further advances.     

Reliability-enabled changes in the design and manufacture of commercial electronic products

It has now become possible to design electronic products that have only a small probability of failing in a period of technologically useful life, if these products are to be used in an environment controlled for human comfort. Such product designs, even ones containing considerable complexity, can use combinations of ASIC and semi-custom VLSI devices, damage-resistant packaging and fault-tolerant techniques to achieve breakthrough reliability. The theme of this paper is that once field failures can be reduced to small fractions of the units produced, by means of such design approaches, then major changes and their accompanying cost savings become possible in the manufacture and support of these electronic products. Although some extra design validation steps will be needed, the resulting opportunities can be very significant for companies that design and manufacture electronic products. This reliability-enabled strategy is fully described in this paper.     

Mechanical properties of and critical conditions for crack initiation in electronic glass

In this paper, the mechanical properties of electronic glass are tested using a combination of the Vickers indentation test and a multiple-loading nanoindentation test to obtain the elastic modulus, Poisson’s ratio and hardness values. The basic mechanical property parameters of the electronic glass and its stress–strain curve are found using atomic force microscopy analysis of the indentation morphology. The critical pressure and depth for crack initiation and the corresponding load and depth can be obtained during vertical loading on the electronic glass. When cracks extend to the surface, the results show that the electronic glass is isotropic. Several loading cycles causes a fatigue effect on the surface of the electronic glass, which decreases its elastic–plastic response. While the loadings are increasing, the elastic–plastic response rates are decreasing bur it rends stability finally. These results can provide a reference and guide for micro machining and surface microstructure machining of electronic glass.     

Fermi surface instabilities and unusual spectral properties in low-dimensional systems

Photoelectron spectroscopy can probe low energy electronic excitations in solids, with practical limitations set by the experimental energy and angular resolution. Appropriate conditions can now be achieved which allow us to visualize changes in the electronic states near the Fermi surface at phase transitions, namely in two-dimensional materials. Quasi one-dimensional conductors are unique in their apparent failure to exhibit a clear metallic signature. This unusual spectroscopic behavior might be the consequence of the singular nature of electronic correlations in 1D.     

柔性电子器件集成与其在包装上的应用

目的 分析柔性电子和柔性基底的发展现状、趋势和前景,为促进智能包装的进一步发展提供参考.方法 先从柔性基底材料入手,梳理常见基底材料性能;再综述柔性电子器件集成的研究现状及主要的集成技术,并讨论其在包装上的应用.结论 具有较好柔韧性和降解性的纸基可作为柔性电子集成的基底材料,结合柔性印刷电子技术和传统硅基电子技术的优势,将柔性电子器件通过蛇形互联结构集成并封装在柔性基底上,从而制备集成可拉伸的微系统,且随着新型印刷电子材料、印刷工艺、新技术和新设备的不断涌现,柔性电子器件集成于柔性基底上并应用于包装将成为一大研究热点.     

真空行业面向为信息产业发展服务的机遇

本文对我国电子信息产业近十年的发展态势、“十五”规划和十年目标,列出图表作了扼要叙述,并对真空产业在面向电子信息产业需求的各项真空设备能及时提供良好的产品,提出了四项市场需求量将会很大增长的电子信息基础元器件的今后发展,其生产工艺及设备需求作了扼要的介绍。     

An analytical procedure for estimating field lifetime and failure rate of electronic packages

To understand the reliability characteristics of electronic packages under field conditions, accelerated life tests (ALT) with higher stress levels are needed in practice. Instead of the time-consuming and costly ALT, an analytical procedure based on finite element simulation and a Weibull statistical method to estimate the lifetime and failure rate of electronic packages subjected to thermal cycling loadings is proposed in the present study. To consider uncertainties, geometric parameters and material properties are assumed as random variables and incorporated into numerical simulation. The result shows that the mean time to failure (MTTF) of a studied electronic package under a specific thermal cycling loading condition can be predicted accurately. From either the proposed analysis or based on a particular model found in literature, the acceleration factor (AF) can be predicted accurately as well. Furthermore, according to the outcome from the Weibull statistical method, the failure rate under either the field or a particular test condition can be determined. Accordingly, the MTTF and failure rate of the package under field conditions can be estimated from the result of a simulated accelerated test as well as the AF model. The present study indicates that the proposed analytical procedure can help engineers evaluate the reliability of electronic packages rapidly and effectively.     

Structural, energetic and electronic properties of intercalated boron–nitride nanotubes

The effects of chirality and the intercalation of transitional metal atoms inside single walled BN nanotubes on structural, energetic and electronic properties have been considered in this paper. The thermodynamic stability of BN nanotubes can be improved by the intercalation of cobalt or nickel. BN nanotubes can behave like an ideal non-interacting hosts for these one-dimensional chains of metal atoms. Their electronic properties are insignificantly modified.     

Growth of a single-wall carbon nanotube film and its patterning as an n-type field effect transistor device using an integrated circuit compatible process

This study presents the synthesis of a dense single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) network on a silicon substrate using alcohol as the source gas. The nanosize catalysts required are made by the reduction of metal compounds in ethanol. The key point in spreading the nanoparticles on the substrate, so that the SWNT network can be grown over the entire wafer, is making the substrate surface hydrophilic. This SWNT network is so dense that it can be treated like a thin film. Methods of patterning this SWNT film with integrated circuit compatible processes are presented and discussed for the first time in the literature. Finally, fabrication and characteristic measurements of a field effect transistor (FET) using this SWNT film are also demonstrated. This FET is shown to have better electronic properties than any other kind of thin film transistor. This thin film with good electronic properties can be readily applied in the processing of many other SWNT electronic devices.     

Mechanical reliability,how do we advance?

The development of theory and practice for electronic and mechanical reliability is described, and mechanical reliability is seen to be lagging in practice. Theory and practice are described for a project from conception to market feedback for mechanical as well as for electronic reliability. It is noted that for each phase theoretical and practical methods exist for mechanical as well as for electronic reliability analysis. Activities are listed which can strengthen mechanical reliability theory and practice.     

Tuning the Optical and Electrical Properties of Few‐Layer Black Phosphorus via Physisorption of Small Solvent Molecules

Black phosphorus (BP) is recently becoming more and more popular among semiconducting 2D materials for (opto)electronic applications. The controlled physisorption of molecules on the BP surface is a viable approach to modulate its optical and electronic properties. Solvents consisting of small molecules are often used for washing 2D materials or as liquid media for their chemical functionalization with larger molecules, disregarding their ability to change the opto‐electronic properties of BP. Herein, it is shown that the opto‐electronic properties of mechanically exfoliated few‐layer BP are altered when physically interacting with common solvents. Significantly, charge transport analysis in field‐effect transistors reveals that physisorbed solvent molecules induce a modulation of the charge carrier density which can be as high as 10¹² cm^?2 in BP, i.e., comparable to common dopants such as F₄‐TCNQ and MoO₃. By combining experimental evidences with density functional theory calculations, it is confirmed that BP doping by solvent molecules not only depends on charge transfer, but is also influenced by molecular dipole. The results clearly demonstrate how an exquisite tuning of the opto‐electronic properties of few‐layer BP can be achieved through physisorption of small solvent molecules. Such findings are of interest both for fundamental studies and more technological applications in opto‐electronics.     

Identifying and counting point defects in carbon nanotubes

The prevailing conception of carbon nanotubes and particularly single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) continues to be one of perfectly crystalline wires. Here, we demonstrate a selective electrochemical method that labels point defects and makes them easily visible for quantitative analysis. High-quality SWNTs are confirmed to contain one defect per 4 microm on average, with a distribution weighted towards areas of SWNT curvature. Although this defect density compares favourably to high-quality, silicon single-crystals, the presence of a single defect can have tremendous electronic effects in one-dimensional conductors such as SWNTs. We demonstrate a one-to-one correspondence between chemically active point defects and sites of local electronic sensitivity in SWNT circuits, confirming the expectation that individual defects may be critical to understanding and controlling variability, noise and chemical sensitivity in SWNT electronic devices. By varying the SWNT synthesis technique, we further show that the defect spacing can be varied over orders of magnitude. The ability to detect and analyse point defects, especially at very low concentrations, indicates the promise of this technique for quantitative process analysis, especially in nanoelectronics development.     

Elemental Analogues of Graphene: Silicene,Germanene, Stanene,and Phosphorene

The fascinating electronic and optoelectronic properties of free‐standing graphene has led to the exploration of alternative two‐dimensional materials that can be easily integrated with current generation of electronic technologies. In contrast to 2D oxide and dichalcogenides, elemental 2D analogues of graphene, which include monolayer silicon (silicene), are fast emerging as promising alternatives, with predictions of high degree of integration with existing technologies. This article reviews this emerging class of 2D elemental materials – silicene, germanene, stanene, and phosphorene – with emphasis on fundamental properties and synthesis techniques. The need for further investigations to establish controlled synthesis techniques and the viability of such elemental 2D materials is highlighted. Future prospects harnessing the ability to manipulate the electronic structure of these materials for nano‐ and opto‐electronic applications are identified.     

The integration and application of MCAD and ECAD in the spatial design of electronic products

As mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) and electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) are used for electronic design and mechanical design, respectively, engineers need to transmit design information between the two through an intermediate data format (IDF). If there are several sub-restrictive areas in the restrictive areas when MCAD is adopted to plan the restrictive areas of electronic components, engineers must re-divide the areas to form a separate and closed loop. Only by doing so will they be able to obtain output IDF files. Nowadays, electronic design has become increasingly complicated, and so it takes a lot of time to finish such a design. Worse still, missing a step results in wrong information, which affects the cost and efficiency of product development. This study sets up an algorithm for restrictive areas synthesis and applies it to the pre-processing of output IDF files. This study also summarizes the bottlenecks of area synthesis and corresponding solutions. Aside from automatic synthesis, the algorithm enhances the integration of MCAD and ECAD, thus achieving fast modification of electronic and mechanical designs between the two and allowing for further examination. The methods herein can reduce the design time by over 65% and prevent errors.     

Photoluminescence imaging of electronic-impurity-induced exciton quenching in single-walled carbon nanotubes

The electronic properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes can be altered by surface adsorption of electronic impurities or dopants. However, fully understanding the influence of these impurities is difficult because of the inherent complexity of the solution-based colloidal chemistry of nanotubes, and because of a lack of techniques for directly imaging dynamic processes involving these impurities. Here, we show that photoluminescence microscopy can be used to image exciton quenching in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes during the early stages of chemical doping with two different species. The addition of AuCl(3) leads to localized exciton-quenching sites, which are attributed to a mid-gap electronic impurity level, and the adsorbed species are also found sometimes to be mobile on the surface of the nanotubes. The addition of H(2)O(2) leads to delocalized exciton-quenching hole states, which are responsible for long-range photoluminescence blinking, and are also mobile.     

Transducer methods and circuitry of electronic instruments

Conclusions Two-way electronic measuring instruments can have circuits with simultaneous, consecutive, or periodic conversion. (Comparator instruments with alternating periodic conversion of the compared voltages or currents are known as periodic comparator instruments [11]).The electronic measuring instruments with periodic conversion have several advantages characteristic for instruments with consecutive conversion (they have constant measured information in the conversion channel, a wide frequency range, and they do not require selection of elements with identical parameters). Since the output signal of the electronic measuring instruments with periodic conversion is proportional to the measured quantity, these instruments can be provided with a closed structural circuit, thus raising their measurement precision.Translated from Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, No. 4, pp. 42–46, April, 1969.     

Modeling and reduction of shocks on electronic components within a projectile

Electronic components within a projectile are subjected to severe loads over an extremely short duration during the launch process. Failure of these components during launch can result in negative effects on the mission of the projectile. While experimental data can be helpful in understanding failure of electronic components within a projectile, collecting such data are usually difficult. There are also limitations on the reliability of sensors under these circumstances. Finite element modeling (FEM) can offer a means to better understand the behavior of these components. It can also be used to develop better shock mitigation features into the projectile design. This research has two objectives. The first objective is to develop an FEM that one describes the interaction of a typical projectile with the gun barrel during launch. The projectile includes a payload of a one-pound mass representing a typical electronic package supported by a plate. The second objective of this work is to investigate the use of composite plates to support electronic payload as a means to reduce the transmitted shocks during the projectile launch event. The proposed plate has carbon fibers embedded in an epoxy matrix. A parametric study of the effects of varying the thickness of the supporting plate and the fiber volume fraction on the accelerations and stresses is included. Results of the study are used to reach general recommendations regarding reducing failure of electronic components within a projectile.     

Assembly and Electronic Applications of Colloidal Nanomaterials

Artificial solids and thin films assembled from colloidal nanomaterials give rise to versatile properties that can be exploited in a range of technologies. In particular, solution‐based processes allow for the large‐scale and low‐cost production of nanoelectronics on rigid or mechanically flexible substrates. To achieve this goal, several processing steps require careful consideration, including nanomaterial synthesis or exfoliation, purification, separation, assembly, hybrid integration, and device testing. Using a ubiquitous electronic device – the field‐effect transistor – as a platform, colloidal nanomaterials in three electronic material categories are reviewed systematically: semiconductors, conductors, and dielectrics. The resulting comparative analysis reveals promising opportunities and remaining challenges for colloidal nanomaterials in electronic applications, thereby providing a roadmap for future research and development.     

Organic Bioelectronics: From Functional Materials to Next-Generation Devices and Power Sources

Conjugated polymers (CPs) possess a unique set of features setting them apart from other materials. These properties make them ideal when interfacing the biological world electronically. Their mixed electronic and ionic conductivity can be used to detect weak biological signals, deliver charged bioactive molecules, and mechanically or electrically stimulate tissues. CPs can be functionalized with various (bio)chemical moieties and blend with other functional materials, with the aim of modulating biological responses or endow specificity toward analytes of interest. They can absorb photons and generate electronic charges that are then used to stimulate cells or produce fuels. These polymers also have catalytic properties allowing them to harvest ambient energy and, along with their high capacitances, are promising materials for next-generation power sources integrated with bioelectronic devices. In this perspective, an overview of the key properties of CPs and examination of operational mechanism of electronic devices that leverage these properties for specific applications in bioelectronics is provided. In addition to discussing the chemical structure–functionality relationships of CPs applied at the biological interface, the development of new chemistries and form factors that would bring forth next-generation sensors, actuators, and their power sources, and, hence, advances in the field of organic bioelectronics is described.     

Measurement of photon energy and dose rate

According to ICRP 60, the radiation weighting factor for photon radiation is set equal to one, irrespective of photon energy and dose rate. However, it is well known that the relative biological effectiveness is not constant for all photon energies and also depends on the dose rate. If these dependencies are to be considered, both the photon energy and the dose rate should be measured. This paper describes the extent to which these quantities can be measured for photons with the available instruments. For individual monitoring the existing dosemeters are mainly used to measure the dose, and so values or estimates of both the dose rate and the photon energy are only available for specially designed instruments as additional information. Some passive dosemeters as well as a few direct reading electronic dosemeters can provide information on photon energy. In addition, some of the direct reading electronic dosemeters have the capability to provide dose rate information. For workplace monitoring the dose rate is the main measured quantity, and so dose rate values are always available. Moreover, there are some special instruments available in the market that are designed to measure photon energy.