Abstract
Deformable electronics have found various applications and elastomeric materials have been widely used to reach flexibility and stretchability. In this Letter, we report an alternative approach to enable deformability through origami. In this approach, the deformability is achieved through folding and unfolding at the creases while the functional devices do not experience strain. We have demonstrated an example of origami-enabled silicon solar cells and showed that this solar cell can reach up to 644% areal compactness while maintaining reasonable good performance upon cyclic folding/unfolding. This approach opens an alternative direction of producing flexible, stretchable, and deformable electronics.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 083501 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 104 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 24 2014 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)