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Conformable Skin Electronics Based on Spiral Pattern

abstract: 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. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Mechanical Engineering 2015

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:29837
Date January 2015
ContributorsFan, Yiling (Author), Jiang, Hanqing (Advisor), Hildreth, Owen (Committee member), Yu, Hongbin (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format49 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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