SOFTER, PLIABLE ELECTRONICS

摘要

Look at any electronic device and typically what you'll see is a hard, rigid, rectangular artifact that is mounted in or bolted to another hard, rigid, rectangular structure, observes Elana C. Ethridge, a microsystems technology program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). But electronic systems, she thinks, "especially those that operate in or interact with the natural environment, should be able to conform to an environment that is characterized by irregular shapes and forms and is softer, more pliable, and flexible."