Electrical and Mechanical Design Rules for Skin-Like Transistor Circuits

该项目将确定敏感皮肤的材料和设备的建设。 敏感皮肤将使机器能够感知整个表面，在非结构化环境中操作，并变得“谨慎”。“敏感皮肤的可用性将引发服务自动化的革命，提高机器使用效率，从而极大地造福于环境，并为人类提供强大的假肢设备。 该项目将开始，探索在可弯曲和可拉伸的无源电路中集成电路型金属化的结合。 它们的物理组成部分将首先是曲折的，然后是由薄膜技术制成的螺旋互连线。 这些将嵌入电路结构的中性平面附近。 有源器件，主要是薄膜晶体管，最初将被限制在刚性平台上。 根据可拉伸金属化的实验和理论理解的进展，进一步的实验将解决柔性有源器件和电路。 这个项目的结果将是构建敏感皮肤的基本设计规则。

This project will identify materials and devices for the construction of Sensitive Skin. Sensitive Skins will enable machines to sense over their entire surface, operate in unstructured environments, and become "cautious." The availability of Sensitive Skin would trigger a revolution in service automation, raise the efficiency of machine use, thereby greatly benefiting the environment, and provide powerful prosthetic devices to humans. The project will begin by exploring the incorporation of integrated circuit type metalization in bendable and stretchable passive circuits. Their physical components will be first meanders then helices of interconnect wires made by thin film techniques. These will be embedded near the neutral plane of the circuit structure. Active devices, primarily thin film transistors, at first will be confined to rigid platforms. Depending on advances made in the experimental and theoretical understanding of stretchable metalization, further experiments will address flexible active devices and circuits. The result of this project will be basic design rules for constructing Sensitive Skin.