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dc.contributor.authorManzoor, M.U.*
dc.contributor.authorTuinea-Bobe, Cristina-Luminita*
dc.contributor.authorMcKavanagh, F.*
dc.contributor.authorByrne, C.P.*
dc.contributor.authorDixon, D.*
dc.contributor.authorMaguire, P.D.*
dc.contributor.authorLemoine, P.*
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-02T10:02:08Z
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T07:25:17Z
dc.date.available2019-05-02T10:02:08Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T07:25:17Z
dc.date.issued2011-06-01
dc.identifier.citationManzoor 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/17072
dc.descriptionNoen_US
dc.description.abstractGold 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Physics D: Applied Physics
dc.subjectCarbon interlayersen_US
dc.subjectGolden_US
dc.subjectPDMSen_US
dc.subjectPolydimethylsiloxaneen_US
dc.subjectElastomeren_US
dc.titleAmorphous carbon interlayers for gold on elastomer stretchable conductorsen_US
dc.status.refereedYesen_US
dc.date.application2011-03-22
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.type.versionNo full-text in the repositoryen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/44/24/245301
dc.date.updated2019-05-02T10:02:16Z


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