circuits
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New Stretchable Circuitry Is Inspired By Rose Petals
If you’ve ever toyed with the petals of a rose, you’ll know that they’re pleasingly stretchy. Now, their material properties are being aped to produce a new breed of stretchable electronics.
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Science Makes A Circuit So Thin It Can Sit On A Contact Lens
Flexible, stretchable, bendable circuits will make futuristic wearable devices and implantable medical sensors possible. Today, a Swiss research team revealed a big new step in that field: a super-thin circuit that can function while wrapped around a human hair or laid on a contact lens.
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Single-Atom Wires Could Help Moore’s Law
When you shrink wires down to nanometres in diameter, their resistivity normally grows exponentially — a trade-off which many have predicted will be Moore’s Law’s undoing soon. But a new, single-atom thick wire could change that.