I just introduced the super-flexible screens today and now here’re super-flexible computers that you can roll up in your bag.
The future technology is designed to make all electronics compact and flexible without cutting the performance. Under the new technology scientists have morphed the rigid silicon into ultra-thin ribbons and wires that are up to 100 nanometers, or one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. This makes the silicon flexible enough to stretch and deftly incorporated in flexible computer displays and e-paper.
The technology allows the displays to be larger, lightweight and robust.
John Rogers, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, said:
“The next frontier is not only flexible but fully stretchable. Stretchability is different than flexibility or bendability, a sheet of paper is bendable but it’s not stretchable. If you fold a sheet of paper in the right way you can make a pleated structure that looks like an accordion and achieve 100 percent stretchability in the paper. We are simply applying similar concepts to silicon.”The ultimate innovation has opened a plethora of options including the use of sensors made of “stretchy” circuits in human body, gadgets and especially wearable technology.
Via: wired
