Materials and wireless microfluidic systems for electronics capable of chemical dissolution on demand

Chi Hwan Lee, Jae Woong Jeong, Yuhao Liu, Yihui Zhang, Yan Shi, Seung Kyun Kang, Jeonghyun Kim, Jae Soon Kim, Na Yeon Lee, Bong Hoon Kim, Kyung In Jang, Lan Yin, Min Ku Kim, Anthony Banks, Ungyu Paik, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers*

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Abstract

Electronics that are capable of destroying themselves, on demand and in a harmless way, might provide the ultimate form of data security. This paper presents materials and device architectures for triggered destruction of conventional microelectronic systems by means of microfluidic chemical etching of the constituent materials, including silicon, silicon dioxide, and metals (e.g., aluminum). Demonstrations in an array of home-built metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors that exploit ultrathin sheets of monocrystalline silicon and in radio-frequency identification devices illustrate the utility of the approaches.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1338-1343
Number of pages6
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume25
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 4 2015

Funding

Keywords

  • Chip destruction
  • Microfluidic systems
  • Transient electronics
  • Triggered transience

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • General Chemistry
  • General Materials Science
  • Electrochemistry
  • Biomaterials

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