Peel-and-Stick: Mechanism Study for Efficient Fabrication of Flexible/Transparent Thin-film Electronics

Chi Hwan Lee, Jae Han Kim, Chenyu Zou, In Sun Cho, Jeffery M. Weisse, William Nemeth, Qi Wang, Adri C.T. Van Duin, Taek Soo Kim, Xiaolin Zheng

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Abstract

Peel-And-stick process, or water-Assisted transfer printing (WTP), represents an emerging process for transferring fully fabricated thin-film electronic devices with high yield and fidelity from a SiO2/Si wafer to various non-Si based substrates, including papers, plastics and polymers. This study illustrates that the fundamental working principle of the peel-And-stick process is based on the water-Assisted subcritical debonding, for which water reduces the critical adhesion energy of metal-SiO2 interface by 70 , 80%, leading to clean and high quality transfer of thin-film electronic devices. Water-Assisted subcritical debonding is applicable for a range of metal-SiO2 interfaces, enabling the peel-And-stick process as a general and tunable method for fabricating flexible/transparent thin-film electronic devices.

Original languageAmerican English
Article number2917
Number of pages6
JournalScientific Reports
Volume3
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Oct 2013
Externally publishedYes

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5200-60822

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