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Title
Conformable skin electronics based on spiral pattern
Description
Skin electronics is one of the most promising applications of stretchable electronics. The versatility of skin electronics can only be guaranteed when it has conformal contact with human skin. While both analytical and numerical solutions for contact between serpentine interconnects and soft substrate remain unreported, the motivation of this thesis is to render a novel method to numerically study the conformability of the serpentine interconnects. This thesis explained thoroughly how to conduct finite element analysis for the conformability of skin electronics, including modeling, meshing method and step setup etc.. User-defined elements were implemented to the finite element commercial package ABAQUS for the analysis of conformability. With thorough investigation into the conformability of Fermat’s spiral, it has been found that the kirigami based pattern exhibits high conformability. Since thickness is a key factor to design skin electronics, the thesis also talked about how the change of thickness of the skin electronics impacts on the conformability.
Date Created
2015
Contributors
- Fan, Yiling (Author)
- Jiang, Hanqing (Thesis advisor)
- Hildreth, Owen (Committee member)
- Yu, Hongbin (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
vii, 41 pages : illustrations (some color)
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29837
Statement of Responsibility
by Yiling Fan
Description Source
Retrieved on July 28, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2015
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-32)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Mechanical engineering
System Created
- 2015-06-01 08:09:45
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:29:20
- 2 years 8 months ago
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