Efficient and mechanically robust stretchable organic light-emitting devices by a laser-programmable buckling process
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Stretchable organic light-emitting devices are becoming increasingly important in the fast-growing fields of wearable displays, biomedical devices and health-monitoring technology. Although highly stretchable devices have been demonstrated, their luminous efficiency and mechanical stability remain impractical for the purposes of real-life applications. This is due to significant challenges arising from the high strain-induced limitations on the structure design of the device, the materials used and the difficulty of controlling the stretch-release process. Here we have developed a laser-programmable buckling process to overcome these obstacles and realize a highly stretchable organic light-emitting diode with unprecedented efficiency and mechanical robustness. The strained device luminous efficiency -70 cd A(-1) under 70% strain - is the largest to date and the device can accommodate 100% strain while exhibiting only small fluctuations in performance over 15,000 stretch-release cycles. This work paves the way towards fully stretchable organic light-emitting diodes that can be used in wearable electronic devices.
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Microelectronic technologies may ultimately reach their limits inherent in low-frequency electromagnetic fields.
“As microelectronic technologies are driven by requirements for wearable devices towards higher sensitivity, faster response, better robustness, and higher integration, they may ultimately reach their limits, which are inherent in the very nature of low-frequency electromagnetic fields [26,27,28,29,30,31].”
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- Authors
- Yin, D., Feng, J., Ma, R., Liu, Y.-F., Zhang, Y.-L., Zhang, X.-L., Bi, Y.-G., Chen, Q.-D., & Sun, H.-B.
- Affiliations
- Jilin University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Feng, Jing
- Sun, Hong-Bo
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2016-05-17
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11573-11573
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4873666
- OpenAlex
- W2401852898
- Cited by
- 236
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 10.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (2011CB013000, 61590930, #61322402, 2013CBA01700, 61435005)
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (61435005, 2011CB013000, 2013CBA01700, 61590930)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Keywords
- mechanical robustness, luminous efficiency, wearable displays, stretchable electronics
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