Biomimetic wafer-scale alignment of tellurium nanowires for high-mobility flexible and stretchable electronics.

ABSTRACT: Flexible and stretchable thin-film transistors (TFTs) are crucial in skin-like electronics for wearable and implantable applications. Such electronics are usually constrained in performance owing to a lack of high-mobility and stretchable semiconducting channels. Tellurium, a rising semiconductor with superior charge carrier mobilities, has been limited by its intrinsic brittleness and anisotropy. Here, we achieve highly oriented arrays of tellurium nanowires (TeNWs) on various substrates with wafer-scale scalability by a facile lock-and-shear strategy. Such an assembly approach mimics the alignment process of the trailing tentacles of a swimming jellyfish. We further apply these TeNW arrays in high-mobility TFTs and logic gates with improved flexibility and stretchability. More specifical

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10997201 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature