Mechanically robust stretchable organic optoelectronic devices built using a simple and universal stencil-pattern transferring technology

Da Yin; Nai-Rong Jiang; Yue-Feng Liu; Xu-Lin Zhang; Ai-Wu Li; Jing Feng; Hong-Bo Sun

doi:10.1038/s41377-018-0041-x

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Mechanically robust stretchable organic optoelectronic devices built using a simple and universal stencil-pattern transferring technology

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- Mechanically robust stretchable organic optoelectronic devices built using a simple and universal stencil-pattern transferring technology
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 7, Issue 4, Pages: 262-269(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, 130012 Changchun, China
  2.State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Haidian, 100084 Beijing, China
- Author bio：
  
  Jing Feng (jingfeng@jlu.edu.cn)
  Hong-Bo Sun(hbsun@tsinghua.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-018-0041-x
  CLC：
- Published：2018，
  
  Published Online：04 July 2018，
  
  Received：21 December 2017，
  
  Revised：12 May 2018，
  
  Accepted：18 May 2018
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Yin, D. et al. Mechanically robust stretchable organic optoelectronic devices built using a simple and universal stencil-pattern transferring technology. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 262-269 (2018).
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Yin, D. et al. Mechanically robust stretchable organic optoelectronic devices built using a simple and universal stencil-pattern transferring technology. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 262-269 (2018). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-018-0041-x.

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Stretchable electronic and optoelectronic devices based on controllable ordered buckling structures exhibit superior mechanical stability by retaining their buckling profile without distortion in repeated stretch-release cycles. However

a simple and universal technology to introduce ordered buckling structures into stretchable devices remains a real challenge. Here

a simple and general stencil-pattern transferring technology was applied to stretchable organic light-emitting devices (SOLEDs) and polymer solar cells (SPSCs) to realize an ordered buckling profile. To the best of our knowledge

both the SOLEDs and SPSCs with periodic buckles exhibited the highest mechanical robustness by operating with small performance variations after 20

000 and 12

000 stretch-release cycles between 0% and 20% tensile strain

respectively. Notably

in this work

periodic-buckled structures were introduced into SPSCs for the first time

with the number of stretch-release cycles for the SPSCs improved by two orders of magnitude compared to that for previously reported random-buckled stretchable organic solar cells. The simple method used in this work provides a universal solution for low-cost and high-performance stretchable electronic and optoelectronic devices and promotes the commercial development of stretchable devices in wearable electronics.

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