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Professor Yonggang Huang, the Shao Lee Soo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA, and his colleagues have produced a stretchable form of silicon that consists of sub-micrometer single crystal elements. When supported by an elastomeric substrate, this silicon can be reversibly stretched and compressed to large levels of strain and therefore enables production of stretchable electronics.
The work of stretchable silicon was published in the journal Science in 2006 and has been selected by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review as one of the "10 Emerging Technologies" in 2006.
In this lecture, entitled "Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics", Professor Huang will not only present key mechanics problems related to stretchable electronics, but also the possible future use of this new technology. Professor T. S. Ng, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, will introduce Prof. Huang to the attendants before the lecture starts.
Media representatives are invited to cover the lecture, the details are:
Date: January 10, 2007(Wed)
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre C, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
Medium: English
Biography:
Professor Yonggang Huang is the Shao Lee Soo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. He holds a BSc from the Peking University, China, and a PhD from Harvard University. He has had a few other named professorships, including the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor at UIUC, the Visiting Clark Millikan Professor at California Institute of Technology, USA, and the ChangJiang Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, China. His research is in the area of micro and nanomechancis materials.
"10 Emerging Technologies in 2006" -- Stretchable Electronics At the HKU Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Lecture
09 Jan 2007
Stretchable silicon, one of the "10 Emerging Technologies" in 2006, is very important to the development of next-generation electronics because it can bend as well as stretch, and allows fast circuit operating speeds. It will have many applications, such as flexible display that can be rolled up like a newspaper, drive electronics for artificial muscles; and it could be used in surgeons' gloves to create sensors that would read chemical levels in the blood and alert a surgeon to a problem, without impairing the sense of touch.
Professor Yonggang Huang, the Shao Lee Soo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA, and his colleagues have produced a stretchable form of silicon that consists of sub-micrometer single crystal elements. When supported by an elastomeric substrate, this silicon can be reversibly stretched and compressed to large levels of strain and therefore enables production of stretchable electronics.
The work of stretchable silicon was published in the journal Science in 2006 and has been selected by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review as one of the "10 Emerging Technologies" in 2006.
In this lecture, entitled "Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics", Professor Huang will not only present key mechanics problems related to stretchable electronics, but also the possible future use of this new technology. Professor T. S. Ng, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, will introduce Prof. Huang to the attendants before the lecture starts.
Media representatives are invited to cover the lecture, the details are:
Date: January 10, 2007(Wed)
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre C, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
Medium: English
Biography:
Professor Yonggang Huang is the Shao Lee Soo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. He holds a BSc from the Peking University, China, and a PhD from Harvard University. He has had a few other named professorships, including the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor at UIUC, the Visiting Clark Millikan Professor at California Institute of Technology, USA, and the ChangJiang Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, China. His research is in the area of micro and nanomechancis materials.
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