“The first layer of fabric could consist of silicon islands with embedded circuits or sensors,” said Liu, who also is affiliated with the university's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.
“The resulting fabric could generate electricity, detect movement or damage, or serve some other active role,” Liu said.
Although demonstrated at the wafer scale, the researchers' chain-mail fabric could be made in large swatches by existing roll-to-roll processes.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded the work.
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