Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Rubbery Stretchable Transistors

dc.contributor.advisorYu, Cunjiang
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLiu, Dong
dc.contributor.committeeMemberShan, Xiaonan
dc.creatorPatel, Shubham
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-0046-9031
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-02T03:48:11Z
dc.date.createdMay 2020
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2020
dc.date.updated2020-06-02T03:48:11Z
dc.description.abstractStretchable Electronics surpass existing rigid electronics and benefit humans, machines, robots etc. where most of the activities are associated with mechanical deformation and strain. Most of the stretchable electronics are realized by using strategical architectures to realize mechanical stretching of the devices rather than imposing strain directly into the materials. However there have been recent development of stretchable electronics by fabricating them from intrinsically stretchable elastomeric electronic materials i.e., rubbery electronics from scratch. Here, this novel approach of using intrinsically stretchable, rubbery electronic materials to fabricate electronic devices which are stretchable like rubber has been used. Stretchable complimentary organic transistor based inverters were fabricated using rubbery organic semiconducting materials and were tested with and without mechanical stretching and their electrical performances were obtained. It was found that the inverters can function normally even under mechanical stretching. In addition, stretchable rubbery synaptic transistors were investigated which were also fully based on rubbery electronic materials and exhibit synaptic characteristics. These characteristics were retained even when the synaptic transistor had been stretched by 30%
dc.description.departmentMechanical Engineering, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/6577
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectRubbery Electronics, Stretchable Complimentary Organic Inverter, Stretchable Synaptic Transistor
dc.titleDesign, Fabrication, and Characterization of Rubbery Stretchable Transistors
dc.type.dcmiText
dc.type.genreThesis
local.embargo.lift2022-05-01
local.embargo.terms2022-05-01
thesis.degree.collegeCullen College of Engineering
thesis.degree.departmentMechanical Engineering, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplineMechanical Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science in Mechanical Engineering

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