Design and performance of thin metal film interconnects for skin-like electronic circuits

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Stretchable Interconnects for Elastic Electronic Surfaces (2005, background): “Stretchability can also be improved when thin metal coatings are deposited on prestretched elastomer membranes [15].”
Increasing the performance of dielectric elastomer actuators: A review from the materials perspective (2015, background): “156, 157], out-of–plane buckled electrodes [158, 159], and corrugated membranes [160, 161].”
Nonlinear analyses of wrinkles in a film bonded to a compliant substrate (2005, background): “The wrinkles are a nuisance in some applications (Iacopi et al., 2003), but may be used as stretchable interconnects (Watanabe et al., 2002; Lacour et al., 2004), as templates for device fabrication (Yoo et al., 2002; Harrison et al., 2004), or as a means to evaluate mechanical properties of…”
Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators (2012, background): “have uniaxially prestretched a silicone substrate by 10 %–20 % before depositing a 25 nm-thick gold layer [55].”
Foldable and Stretchable Liquid Metal Planar Inverted Cone Antenna (2009, background): “presented stretchable interconnects and thin film transistor (TFT) circuits on pre-stretched elastic substrates [9]–[11].”