title: Facile preparation of high-performance elastically stretchable interconnects.
abstract: Sites on poly(dimethylsiloxane) are selected by ultraviolet exposure. In a subsequent electroless deposition, solid silver films are created on the selected sites only. In this way, facile vacuum-free deposition of electrodes from the liquid phase and their photoresist- and solvent-free patterning are realized. The technique enables reliable rigid-to-soft interconnects that are reversibly stretchable under arbitrary and changing stretching directions.
authors.affiliation: Chair of Large Area Optoelectronics, University of Wuppertal, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119, Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Polywka
authors.affiliation: Chair of Large Area Optoelectronics, University of Wuppertal, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119, Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jakob
authors.affiliation: Chair of Large Area Optoelectronics, University of Wuppertal, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119, Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stegers
authors.affiliation: Institute of Electronic Devices, University of Wuppertal, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119, Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Riedl
authors.affiliation: Chair of Large Area Optoelectronics, University of Wuppertal, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119, Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Görrn
keywords: electroless deposition; lithography; poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS); silver; stretchable