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Published on: January 23, 2013
Patterned Metal/Polymer Composite Film with Good Mechanical Stability and Repeatability for Flexible Electronic
Xu Zheng1, Qing Wang2, Jinjin Luan1
1Institue of Nano Engineering, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China.
Abstract:
Mechanical stability and repeatability are significant factors for the application of metal film flexible electronic devices. In this work, patterned metal/polymer composite films with good mechanical stability and repeatability were fabricated through nanoimprint technology. The mechanical properties characteristic of metal/polymer composite films were exhibited by resistance change (ΔR/R0) after cyclic tension and bending loading. It was found that the ΔR/R0 and error line of patterned metal/polymer composite film was far lower than the other control groups for repeated experiments, which indicates that patterned metal film has excellent mechanical properties and repeatability. The double cantilever beam method was employed to measure the interfacial adhesion properties of composite films. The average interfacial adhesion of patterned metal/polymer composite films is shown to be over 2.9 and 2.2 times higher than that of metal film deposited on bare polymer and metal nanowire-treated polymer substrates, respectively.
