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    Amorphous carbon interlayers for gold on elastomer stretchable conductors

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    Publication date
    2011-06-01
    Author
    Manzoor, M.U.
    Tuinea-Bobe, Cristina-Luminita
    McKavanagh, F.
    Byrne, C.P.
    Dixon, D.
    Maguire, P.D.
    Lemoine, P.
    Keyword
    Carbon interlayers
    Gold
    PDMS
    Polydimethylsiloxane
    Elastomer
    Peer-Reviewed
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    Abstract
    Gold on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stretchable conductors were prepared using a novel approach by interlacing an hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C : H) layer between the deposited metal layer and the elastomer. AFM analysis of the a-C : H film surface before gold deposition shows nanoscale buckling, the corresponding increase in specific surface area corresponds to a strain compensation for the first 4–6% of bi-axial tensile loading. Without this interlayer, the deposited gold films show much smaller and uni-directional ripples as well as more cracks and delaminations. With a-C : H interlayer, the initial electrical resistivity of the metal film decreases markedly (280-fold decrease to 8 × 10−6 Ω cm). This is not due to conduction within the carbon interlayer; both a-C : H/PDMS and PDMS substrates are electrically insulating. Upon cyclic tensile loading, both films become more resistive, but return to their initial state after 20 tensile cycles up to 60% strain. Profiling experiments using secondary ion mass spectroscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy indicate that the a-C : H layer intermixes with the PDMS, resulting in a graded layer of decreasing stiffness. We believe that both this graded layer and the surface buckling contribute to the observed improvement in the electrical performance of these stretchable conductors.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17072
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    Manzoor MU, Tuinea-Bobe C-L, McKavanagh F et al (2011) Amorphous carbon interlayers for gold on elastomer stretchable conductors. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 44(24): 245301.
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    https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/44/24/245301
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