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Nature Nanotechnology 1, 163 - 164 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.157

Subject Categories: Electronic properties and devices | Photonic structures and devices | Structural properties

Electronic materials: Buckling down for flexible electronics

Xianmao Lu1 & Younan Xia1

  1. Xianmao Lu and Younan Xia are in the Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, USA.

Correspondence to: Younan Xia1 e-mail: xia@chem.washington.edu


Inorganic nanoribbons can be attached to an elastic surface at selected positions to make wave-like structures that maintain their semiconducting properties when stretched or compressed. These nanostructures will prove to be immediately useful in flexible electronics.

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