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http://dx.doi.org/10.6117/kmeps.2020.27.2.039

CNT-Ni-Fabric Flexible Substrate with High Mechanical and Electrical Properties for Next-generation Wearable Devices  

Kim, Hyung Gu (Department of Advanced Chemicals & Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Rho, Ho Kyun (Energy Convergence Core Facility, Chonnam National University)
Cha, Anna (Department of Advanced Chemicals & Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Lee, Min Jung (Department of Advanced Chemicals & Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Ha, Jun-Seok (Department of Advanced Chemicals & Engineering, Chonnam National University)
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Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society / v.27, no.2, 2020 , pp. 39-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, numerous researches are being conducted in flexible substrate to apply to wearable devices. Particularly, Conductive substrate researches that can implement the wearable devices on clothing are massive. In this study, we formed fiber substrate spraying CNT and Pd mixed solution on it and plated metal layer with electroless plating. Used SEM equipment and EDS analysis to analysis structure of the plated fiber substrate and discovered Ni layer was created. For check electrical properties, mapping was performed to check surface resistance and distribution of resistance of electroless plated fiber substrate with 4-point probe. It was confirmed that conductivity was improved as the duration of electroless plating was increased, and it was found that distribution of resistance by surface location was uniform. Changes in resistance due to mechanical stress were measured through tensile, bending, and twisting tests. As a result, it was confirmed that resistance change of flexible substrate gradually disappeared as plating time increased. Using UTM (Universal testing machine), it was analyzed mechanical properties of the electroless plated substrate with respect to changes in plating time were improved. In the case of conductive fiber substrate in which electroless plating was performed for 2 hours, tensile strength was increased by 16 MPa than fiber substrate. Based on these results, we found that Ni-CNT-Fabric flexible substrate is adequate for clothing-intergrated conductive substrate and we positively expect that this experiment shows flexible substrate can adapt to and develop not only a wearable device technology but also other fields needing flexibility such as battery, catalyst and solar cell.
Keywords
Wearable device; Conductive fiber; Flexible substrate; CNT spray; Ni electroless plating;
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