Episode 24: Substrate cracking compromises integrity of flexible electronic devices

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Nitin Padture discussing substrate cracking in flexible electronic devices and its impact on electronic properties.

In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Nitin Padture, who is the Otis E. Randall University Professor and the founding Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy at Brown University, about his group’s work uncovering the cracks in a substrate that was coated with a transparent-conducting oxide thin film. This cracking, they discovered, contributes toward the degradation in the electronic properties of devices. The group’s next step was to mitigate the cracking. T...

People in this episode

Host: Laura Leay

Guest: Nitin Padture

Topics covered

• flexible electronics
• substrate cracking
• transparent-conducting oxide
• device integrity
• electronic properties
• sustainable energy

Keywords

• substrate cracking
• flexible electronics
• transparent-conducting oxide
• electronic degradation
• sustainable energy

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Organizations: Brown University

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