Posted Mar 28th 2008 5:41AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Misc. gadgets
The first “completely integrated, extremely bendable circuit” was just demonstrated to the world. The team behind the research is led by John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The process bonds circuit sheets measuring just 1.5 micrometers (50 times thinner than human hair) to a piece of pre-stretched rubber. That allows the circuits to buckle like an accordion when pulled or twisted without losing their electrical properties. Unfortunately, the materials used thus far are not compatible with human tissue. In other words, no X-ray vision implant for you. X-ray contacts perhaps… quantum-computers now, please Mr. Scientists? Watch a circuit buckle in the video after the break.
[Via BBC, thanks YoJIMbo]
Stretchy Silicon Circuits from Engadget on Vimeo.
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