Stretchable Electronic Skin by Nokia Research Center, Cambridge

Dr Stéphanie Lacour, University of Cambridge Research Centre, talks about stretchable electronic skin which her team is working on at University of Cambridge in collaboration with Nokia thinking about devices which can have flexible forms.

Lacour fabricated thin gold strips on elastic rubber substrates that could be stretched like a rubber band without losing electrical conductivity. Then these strips used as the foundation of the first stretchable integrated circuit.

Connecting small, rigid islands of conventional semiconductors with the gold strips, the researchers built simple electronic devices that still worked after repeated stretchings.