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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2013
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Darren Lipomi, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael Vosgueritchian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chee-Keong Tee, Stanford, CA (US);
Sondra Hellstrom, Stanford, CA (US);
Zhenan Bao, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses and methods, consistent with embodiments herein, are directed to an apparatus having a stretchable substrate and a plurality of nanostructures. While the plurality of nanostructures are adhered to the stretchable substrate, the stretchable substrate and the nanostructures are stretched and/or operate in a stretched mode in which the nanostructures are characterized by a resistance corresponding to a strain imparted due to the stretching. When the substrate is relaxed or the stretching otherwise lessened, the nanostructures continue to be characterized as a function of the strain and the corresponding resistance, with buckled segments of the nanostructures being adhered along a surface of the substrate.