• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.117-123
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• 2015

신축성 디바이스용 강성도 국부변환 기판기술을 개발하기 위해 강성도가 서로 다른 두 polydimethylsiloxane 탄성고분자를 사용하여 섬(island) 구조로 이루어진 강성도 국부변환 신축성 기판을 형성하고 변형 거동을 분석하였다. 기판 기지로는 탄성계수가 0.09 MPa인 Dragon Skin 10을 사용하였으며, 섬 구조의 강성도 국부변환부는 탄성계수가 2.15 MPa인 Sylgard 184를 사용하였다. 신축성 기판의 형상은 길이 6.5 cm, 두께 0.4 cm, 폭 2.5 cm 이었다. Dragon Skin 10 기지에 폭 1 cm, 길이 1~6 cm인 Sylgard 184의 삽입에 의해 신축성 기판의 탄성계수가 0.09 MPa에서 0.13~0.33 MPa로 증가하였다. 길이 4 cm, 폭 0.5~1.5 cm인 Sylgard 184 강성도 국부변환부를 내재시킴에 따라 신축성 기판의 탄성계수가 0.16~0.2 MPa로 증가하였으며, 길이 2 cm, 폭 0.5~1.5 cm인 강성도 국부변환부를 내재시킴에 따라 탄성계수가 0.142~0.154 MPa로 증가하였다. 신축성 기판의 변형률이 증가함에 따라 Sylgard 184와 Dragon Skin 10의 강도 차이가 현저히 증가하는데 기인하여 강성도 국부변환부의 변형억제 효과가 향상되었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.312-317
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• 2022

Piezoelectric energy harvesting has attracted increasing attention over the last decade as a means for generating sustainable and long-lasting energy from wasted mechanical energy. To develop self-powered wearable devices, piezoelectric materials should be flexible, stretchable, and bio-eco-friendly. This study proposed the fabrication of stretchable piezoelectric composites via dispersing perovskite-structured BaTiO₃ nanoparticles inside an Ecoflex polymeric matrix. In particular, the stretchable piezoelectric sensor array was fabricated via a simple and cost-effective spin-coating process by exploiting the piezoelectric composite comprising of BaTiO₃ nanoparticles, Ecoflex matrix, and stretchable Ag coated textile electrodes. The fabricated sensor generated an output voltage of ~4.3 V under repeated compressing deformations. Moreover, the piezoelectric sensor array exhibited robust mechanical stability during mechanical pushing of ~5,000 cycles. Finite element method with multiphysics COMSOL simulation program was employed to support the experimental output performance of the fabricated device. Finally, the stretchable piezoelectric sensor array can be used as a self-powered touch sensor that can effectively detect and distinguish mechanical stimuli, such as pressing by a human finger. The fabricated sensor demonstrated potential to be used in a stretchable, lead-free, and scalable piezoelectric sensor array.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.289-300
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• 2000

Stretchable textile materials are getting more widely used in clothing industry. Among others are two obvious reasons which make it so desirable to young female customers, i.e., better confort with motion and more closely fitted silhouette. But these two points cannot get along well always. If a manufacturer try hard to make his products too closely fit, then the products are even less comfortable than made of non-stretchable material. On the other hand, if a stretchable garment are developed to be too comfortable with plenty of size tolerance. it cannot attract customers who are looking for something closely fit. So the study was aimed to investigate appropriate size tolerances.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.48-57
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• 2019

As the super-aged society approaches rapidly, the number of people suffering from post-stroke and other neurological disorders is significantly increasing, where prompt and intensive rehabilitation is essential for such people to resume their physical activities in normal daily lives. To overcome the inherent limitations of manual physical therapy, various types of exoskeleton robots are being employed. However, the need of the hour is softer, thinner, lighter, and even stretchable systems for precisely monitoring the motion of each joint without restricting the patients' movements in rehabilitation tasks. In this paper, we discuss the technological trends and current status of emerging stretchable rehabilitation systems, in which sensors, interconnects, and signal-processing circuits are monolithically integrated within a single stretchable substrate attachable to the skin. Such skin-like stretchable rehabilitation devices are expected to provide much more convenient, user-friendly, and motivating rehabilitation to patients with neurological impairments.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2022

We demonstrate a new double-layer structure for stretchable interconnects, where the top surface of a serpentine polyimide support is coated with a thin eutectic gallium-indium liquid metal layer. Because the liquid metal layer is constantly fixed on the solid serpentine body in this liquid-on-solid structure, the overall stretching is accomplished by widening the solid frame itself, with little variation in the total length and cross-sectional area of the current path. Therefore, we can achieve both invariant resistance and infinite fatigue life by combining the stretchable configuration of the underlying body with the freely deformable nature of the top liquid conductor. Further, we fabricated various types of double-layer interconnects as narrow as 10 ㎛ using the roll-painting and lift-off patterning technique based on conventional photolithography and quantitatively validated their beneficial properties. The new interconnecting structure is expected to be widely used in applications requiring high-performance and high-density stretchable circuits owing to its superior reliability and capability to be monolithically integrated with thin-film devices.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.363.2-363.2
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• 2016

Stretchable strain sensors are becoming essential in diverse future applications, such as human motion detection, soft robotics, and various biomedical devices. One of the well-known approaches for fabricating stretchable strain sensors is to embed conductive nanomaterials such as metal nanowires/nanoparticles, graphene, conducting polymer and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within an elastomeric substrate. Among various conducting nanomaterials, CNTs have been considered as important and promising candidate materials for stretchable strain sensors owing to their high electrical conductivity and excellent mechanical properties. In the past decades, CNT-based strain sensors with high stretchability or sensitivity have been developed. However, CNT-based strain sensors which show both high stretchability and sensitivity have not been reported. Herein, highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensors were fabricated by integrating single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and nylon textiles via vacuum-assisted spray-layer-by-layer process. Our strain sensors had high sensitivity with 100 % tensile strain (gauge factor ~ 100). Cyclic tests confirmed that our strain sensors showed very robust and reliable characteristic. Moreover, our SWNTs-based strain sensors were easily and successfully integrated on human finger and knee to detect bending and walking motion. Our approach presented here might be route to preparing highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensors with providing new opportunity to realize practical wearable devices.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.363.1-363.1
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• 2016

Transparent and stretchable conductors are expected to be an essential component in future stretchable optoelectronic devices. Until now, two main methods have been commonly employed to fabricate transparent and stretchable conductors by using metal nanomaterials: creating buckling configurations and creating network configurations. In this report, a novel strategy for obtaining transparent and stretchable conductors is presented, one that employs these two main approaches simultaneously. To the best of our knowledge, this proposed configuration of a buckled long nanofiber network in this study has not yet been reported. In order to provide the transparent conductors with dual mode stretchability originating from simultaneous buckled and network configurations, a buckled Au@polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) nanofiber network (hereafter referred to BANN for convenience) was fabricated by transferring Au-metallized electrospun PVP nanofibers onto a prestrained polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate. Our BANN shows considerably lower strain sensitivity of resistance than that of straight Au@PVP nanofiber network. Durability tests conducted by performing cyclic tensile strain reveal that the relative change in resistance of BANN (prestrain = 20%) is quite small after 1000 cycles. We also demonstrate that this BANN exhibits superior performance over widely used indium tin oxide conductors with regard to high optical transmittance and low sheet resistance.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2019

5쌍의 Bi₂Te₃계 p-n 가압소결체 열전레그들로 구성되어 있으며 상하부 기판이 없고 내부는 polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)로 충진되어 있는 신축열전모듈을 형성하고, 이의 신축특성과 발전특성을 분석하였다. 신축열전모듈에 변형률 0~0.1 범위의 신축변형 싸이클을 10회 인가하여도 모듈의 integrity가 잘 유지되었으며, 인장변형률이 0.2로 증가시 Cu 전극과 열전레그 사이의 접합부 파단에 의해 모듈이 open 되었다. 신축열전모듈은 열전레그 양단간의 온도차가 2.2 K일 때 4.6 mV의 open circuit 전압을 나타내었으며, 변형률 0~0.1 범위의 인장변형에 의한 open circuit 전압의 변화는 5% 미만이었다. 신축열전모듈은 0.1의 변형률로 인장된 상태에서 레그 양단간 온도차 2.2 K에 의해 18.5 ㎼의 최대발전출력을 나타내었다.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2018

신축성 기판은 신축성 전자소자의 신축성, 공정성, 내구성을 결정하는 매우 중요한 소재로서 신축성 전자소자를 개발함에 있어서 우선적으로 고려해야 된다. 특히 현재 사용되는 신축성 기판은 히스테리시스가 존재하여 센서 및 기타 응용에 많은 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 신축성 소재 기판으로 사용되는 PDMS와 Ecoflex를 혼합한 PDMS-Ecoflex 하이브리드 신축성 기판을 제작하여 신축성과 히스테리시스 특성을 향상하고자 하였다. 인장 시험을 통하여 신축성 하이브리드 기판의 기계적 거동을 관찰하였으며, 투과도 측정을 통하여 투과도를 평가하였다. Ecoflex의 함량이 증가할수록 하이브리드 신축성 기판은 더 유연해지며, 탄성계수는 감소한다. 또한 PDMS 기판은 270% 변형률에서 파단이 발생한 반면, PDMS-Ecoflex 하이브리드 기판은 500%의 변형률까지 파단되지 않으며 우수한 신축성을 갖는 것을 알 수 있었다. 반복 인장시험에서 PDMS와 Ecoflex의 혼합비를 2:1로 제작된 기판은 히스테리시스가 발생하였다. 반면 1:1의 혼합비로 제작된 기판의 경우 50%, 100%의 변형률에서는 히스테리시스가 발생하지 않았다. 결론적으로 500% 이상의 신축성을 갖으면서 히스테리시스가 없은 기판을 제작하였다. 기판의 혼합비에 따른 광투과도 측정 결과, Ecoflex 기판의 투과도는 68.6% 이였으나, PDMS-Ecoflex 함량이 2:1, 1:1인 하이브리드 기판의 경우, 각각 78.6%, 75.4%의 투과율을 보이며, 향후 투명 신축성 기판으로서 개발 가능성을 보여주었다.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2016

This paper presents an overview of selected advanced measurement technologies for the mechanical properties of polymers used for flexible and stretchable electronic packaging. Over the years, a variety of flexible and stretchable electronics have been developed due to their potential applications for next generation IT industry. To achieve more flexible and wearable devices for practical applications, the usage of polymeric components has been increased significantly. Therefore, accurate measurement of mechanical properties of the polymers is necessary in order to design mechanically reliable devices. However, the measurement has been challenging due to the soft nature and thin applications of polymers. Here, we describe novel measurement technologies of mechanical properties of polymers for flexible and stretchable electronics.