This project, a collaboration with G. Crawford (then at Brown, before moving on to Notre Dame and eventually becoming the President of  Miami Univ. of Ohio), investigated flexible granular indium metal interconnects, which turned out to be stretchable and bendable, bridging cracks in brittle substrate layers and delivering metal lines that would retain electrical integrity when stretched up to 100% on flexible substrates.   Grad students involved in this project won a prize in a high-tech start-up competition.

Funding agencies:
Brown University seed grant

Key students and post-docs:
Dapeng Wang (Brown PhD Physics 2007)
Fred Biga (Brown PhD EE 2007, went on to Goldman Sachs)