Download or read book Flexible Electronics written by Ramses V. Martinez and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible Electronics platforms are increasingly used in the fields of sensors, displays, and energy conversion with the ultimate goal of facilitating their ubiquitous integration in our daily lives. Some of the key advantages associated with flexible electronic platforms are: bendability, lightweight, elastic, conformally shaped, nonbreakable, roll-to-roll manufacturable, and large-area. To realize their full potential, however, it is necessary to develop new methods for the fabrication of multifunctional flexible electronics at a reduced cost and with an increased resistance to mechanical fatigue. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase short communications, research papers, and review articles that focus on novel methodological development for the fabrication, and integration of flexible electronics in healthcare, environmental monitoring, displays and human-machine interactivity, robotics, communication and wireless networks, and energy conversion, management, and storage.

Download or read book Flexible Electronics Fabrication and Ubiquitous Integration written by Ramses V. Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible Electronics platforms are increasingly used in the fields of sensors, displays, and energy conversion with the ultimate goal of facilitating their ubiquitous integration in our daily lives. Some of the key advantages associated with flexible electronic platforms are: bendability, lightweight, elastic, conformally shaped, nonbreakable, roll-to-roll manufacturable, and large-area. To realize their full potential, however, it is necessary to develop new methods for the fabrication of multifunctional flexible electronics at a reduced cost and with an increased resistance to mechanical fatigue. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase short communications, research papers, and review articles that focus on novel methodological development for the fabrication, and integration of flexible electronics in healthcare, environmental monitoring, displays and human-machine interactivity, robotics, communication and wireless networks, and energy conversion, management, and storage.

Download or read book A Fresh Concept of Software resemblant Hardware to Leap to 6G and Future Networks written by Jacopo Iannacci and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade, with the uptake of 4G, we have become accustomed to the relentless increase in data and services on the move. The deployment of 5G is advancing crucial key performance indicators (KPIs), along with quality of service (QoS). Setting the horizon to 2030 and later, 6G will take the KPIs to numbers 100–1000 times better than 5G. Yet, the actual disruption of 6G and future networks (FN) will take place following other unprecedented paths. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be exploited in a threadlike fashion, at any level of the network physical infrastructure. This will introduce, to date unknown features, like self-sustaining, self-evolution and high-resilience of small portions of the infrastructure, pioneering the concept of a network of networks. Each segment of the infrastructure will bear a high degree of independence, while working at the same time as a whole, in full orchestration with the rest of the network. Given such a scenario, this book claims that the established and currently in use paradigms for the design and development of hardware–software (HW–SW) systems, are not appropriate to address the challenges of 6G and, further ahead, of FN. In response, unprecedented design approaches are suggested, relying on a fresh reinterpretation of the standard concept of HW, with specific attention to the network edge and edge intelligence (EI). This work develops some conceptual tools that may help address the technical challenges resulting from the intricate scenario sketched above. Within the mentioned HW reconceptualization, a pivotal role is forecasted for microtechnologies and nanotechnologies, intended with a broad meaning, which embraces, among others, devices, systems (MEMS/NEMS) and materials.

Download or read book Advanced Materials for Printed Flexible Electronics written by Colin Tong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to printed flexible electronics and their applications, including the basics of modern printing technologies, printable inks, performance characterization, device design, modeling, and fabrication processes. A wide range of materials used for printed flexible electronics are also covered in depth. Bridging the gap between the creation of structure and function, printed flexible electronics have been explored for manufacturing of flexible, stretchable, wearable, and conformal electronics device with conventional, 3D, and hybrid printing technologies. Advanced materials such as polymers, ceramics, nanoparticles, 2D materials, and nanocomposites have enabled a wide variety of applications, such as transparent conductive films, thin film transistors, printable solar cells, flexible energy harvesting and storage devices, electroluminescent devices, and wearable sensors. This book provides students, researchers and engineers with the information to understand the current status and future trends in printed flexible electronics, and acquire skills for selecting and using materials and additive manufacturing processes in the design of printed flexible electronics.

Download or read book Flexible Electronics for Security Manufacturing and Growth in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy and Global Affairs' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy to review challenges, plans, and opportunities for growing a robust flexible electronics industry in the United States. Business leaders, academic experts, and senior government officials met to review the role of research consortia around the world to advance flexible electronics technology. Presenters and participants sought to understand their structure, focus, funding, and likely impact, and to determine what appropriate steps the United States might consider to develop a robust flexible electronics industry. Flexible electronics refers to technologies that enable flexibility in the manufacturing process as well as flexibility as a characteristic of the final product. Features such as unconventional forms and ease of manufacturability provide important advantages for flexible electronics over conventional electronics built on rigid substrates. Today, examples of flexible electronics technologies are found in flexible flat-panel displays, medical image sensors, photovoltaic sheets, and electronic paper. Some industry experts predict that the market for global flexible electronics will experience a double digit growth rate, reaching $250 billion by 2025, but most experts believe that the United States is not currently poised to capitalize on this opportunity. Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States examines and compares selected innovation programs, both foreign and domestic, and their potential to advance the production of flexible electronics technology.

Download or read book Flexible Electronics written by William S. Wong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent volume covers a range of materials used for flexible electronics, including semiconductors, dielectrics, and metals. The functional integration of these different materials is treated as well. Fundamental issues for both organic and inorganic materials systems are included. A corresponding overview of technological applications, based on each materials system, is presented to give both the non-specialist and the researcher in the field relevant information on the status of the flexible electronics area.

Download or read book Flexible Wearable and Stretchable Electronics written by Katsuyuki Sakuma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable progress has been achieved within recent years in developing flexible, wearable, and stretchable (FWS) electronics. These electronics will play an increasingly significant role in the future of electronics and will open new product paradigms that conventional semiconductors are not capable of. This is because flexible electronics will allow us to build flexible circuits and devices on a substrate that can be bent, stretched, or folded without losing functionality. This revolutionary change will impact how we interact with the world around us. Future electronic devices will use flexible electronics as part of ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing for many different applications such as consumer electronics, medical, healthcare, and security devices. Thus, these devices have the potential to create a huge market all over the world. Flexible, Wearable, and Stretchable Electronics, provide a comprehensive technological review of the state-of-the-art developments in FWS electronics. This book offers the reader a taste of what is possible with FWS electronics and describes how these electronics can provide unique solutions for a wide variety of applications. Furthermore, the book introduces and explains new applications of flexible technology that has opened up the future of FWS electronics.

Download or read book Flexible Electronics From Materials To Devices written by Guozhen Shen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent development of flexible electronics. This is a fast evolving research field and tremendous progress has been made in the past decade. In this book, new material development and novel flexible device, circuit design, fabrication and characterizations will be introduced. Particularly, recent progress of nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, semiconductor nanowires, nanofibers, for flexible electronic applications, assembly of nanomaterials for large scale device and circuitry, flexible energy devices, such as solar cells and batteries, etc, will be introduced. And through reviewing these cutting edge research, the readers will be able to see the key advantages and challenges of flexible electronics both from material and device perspectives, as well as identify future directions of the field.

Download or read book Interconnect Technologies for Integrated Circuits and Flexible Electronics written by Yash Agrawal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed book provides a thorough understanding of the basics along with detailed state-of-the-art emerging interconnect technologies for integrated circuit design and flexible electronics. It focuses on the investigation of advanced on-chip interconnects which match the current as well as future technology requirements. The contents focus on different aspects of interconnects such as material, physical characteristics, parasitic extraction, design, structure, modeling, machine learning, and neural network-based models for interconnects, signaling schemes, varying signal integrity performance analysis, variability, reliability aspects, associated electronic design automation tools. The book also explores interconnect technologies for flexible electronic systems. It also highlights the integration of sensors with stretchable interconnects to demonstrate the concept of a stretchable sensing network for wearable and flexible applications. This book is a useful guide for those working in academia and industry to understand the fundamentals and application of interconnect technologies.

Download or read book Flexible Electronics written by William S. Wong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent volume covers a range of materials used for flexible electronics, including semiconductors, dielectrics, and metals. The functional integration of these different materials is treated as well. Fundamental issues for both organic and inorganic materials systems are included. A corresponding overview of technological applications, based on each materials system, is presented to give both the non-specialist and the researcher in the field relevant information on the status of the flexible electronics area.

Download or read book Organic Flexible Electronics written by Piero Cosseddu and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organic Electronics is a novel field of electronics that has gained an incredible attention over the past few decades. New materials, device architectures and applications have been continuously introduced by the academic and also industrial communities, and novel topics have raised strong interest in such communities, as molecular doping, thermoelectrics, bioelectronics and many others.Organic Flexible Electronics is mainly divided into three sections. The first part is focused on the fundamentals of organic electronics, such as charge transport models in these systems and new approaches for the design and synthesis of novel molecules. The first section addresses the main challenges that are still open in this field, including the important role of interfaces for achieving high-performing devices or the novel approaches employed for improving reliability issues.The second part discusses the most innovative devices which have been developed in recent years, such as devices for energy harvesting, flexible batteries, high frequency circuits, and flexible devices for tattoo electronics and bioelectronics.Finally the book reviews the most important applications moving from more standard flexible back panels to wearable and textile electronics and more futuristic applications like ingestible systems. Reviews the fundamental properties and methods for optimizing organic electronic materials including chemical doping and techniques to address stability issues Discusses the most promising organic electronic devices for energy, electronics, and biomedical applications Addresses key applications of organic electronic devices in imagers, wearable electronics, bioelectronics

Download or read book Additive Manufacturing of Mechatronic Integrated Devices written by Friedrich Wilhelm Proes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation a new process chain for the Additive Manufacturing of Mechatronic Integrated Devices (AMMID) is described, which provides a new way to manufacture 3-dimensional electronic devices based on the selective laser sintering (SLS) process using laser direct structuring (LDS) and metallization. The AMMID process chain meets the rising demand for highly functionalized parts, increasing individualization and shortening development cycles for electronic products. The development for this process chain is based on an extensive literature review that indicates that an SLS-based process chain has great potential to produce 3-dimensional electronic devices with properties and with the future perspective of being suitable for an individualized mass production. The biggest, initial, technical hurdle is an unstable SLS process using a conventional LDS additive. The compound of SLS material and LDS additive was analyzed with DSC, which shows that the additive changes the melting behavior of the polymer by reducing the sintering window. A fine metal powder as an alternative additive affects the sintering window less and enables a stable process. To choose a suitable particle size and content for the metal powder an analytical material model is provided, that predicts the additive particle distribution within the material. This material model deepens the understanding of the activation mechanism during laser activation, provides hands-on information for powder preparation and it is applied for the design of the experiment for the development of the process chain with the new material. Preliminary experiments are conducted along with the insights of the material model, which prove that redeposition is the main activation mechanism during laser activation with fine metal powders. Based on this, the process chain is developed, starting with a determination of a suitable additive content. A suitable material composition of a PA12 powder containing 2 wt.% of a copper powder with a mean particle diameter of 3.5 μm was identified. With regard to the laser activation, working laser parameters are developed (working parameter set feasible for all used post-process treatments: PRF = 1 kHz, dh = 25 μm, vs = 25 mm/s, tl = 20ns and P = 1.07 W). In this parameter development it is shown, that only closely located laser spots, enabling interaction of the laser pulses, are capable of activating the surface, while single laser pulses under applied conditions are not. By adding a post-process treatment as additional process step into the process chain, the quality of metallization and the size of design features could be improved. Chemical smoothing resulted in a complete reduction of unwanted metallization on non-activated surfaces. Conductor tracks with the minimal width of 300 μm could be realized. The process chain could be applied to demonstrator parts such as a drone housing and a PSU panel of an aircraft. Thus, this dissertation has raised the technology readiness level (TRL) from TRL2 to TRL6. Finally, an economic consideration provides insights on the cost structure of parts produced with the AMMID process. A comparison of AMMID and injection molding shows economic viability for small lot sizes, 400 parts in case of the drone housing and 150 parts in case of the PSU panel. Finally, the analysis of the cost structure gives advice which future developments in the process chain have the greatest effect on costs and provides prioritization.

Download or read book Fabless Semiconductor Manufacturing written by Chinmay K. Maiti and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with 3D nanodevices such as nanowire and nanosheet transistors at 7 nm and smaller technology nodes. It discusses technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulations of stress- and strain-engineered advanced semiconductor devices, including III-nitride and RF FDSOI CMOS, for flexible and stretchable electronics. The book focuses on how to set up 3D TCAD simulation tools, from mask layout to process and device simulation, including fabless intelligent manufacturing. The simulation examples chosen are from the most popular devices in use today and provide useful technology and device physics insights. In order to extend the role of TCAD in the More-than-Moore era, the design issues related to strain engineering for flexible and stretchable electronics have been introduced for the first time.

Download or read book Flexible Electronics written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Flexible Electronics Mounting electronic components on flexible plastic substrates, such as polyimide, PEEK, or transparent conductive polyester film, is the method used in the technology known as flexible electronics, which is also known as flex circuits. This method is used to assemble electronic circuits. In addition to this method, silver circuits may be screen printed on polyester to create flex circuits. It is possible to build flexible electronic assemblies using the same components that are used to produce rigid printed circuit boards. This gives the board the ability to adapt to any desired shape and to bend while it is in use. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Flexible electronics Chapter 2: Organic electronics Chapter 3: Printed circuit board Chapter 4: BoPET Chapter 5: Roll-to-roll processing Chapter 6: Lamination Chapter 7: FR-4 Chapter 8: Polyimide Chapter 9: Thin film Chapter 10: Membrane switch Chapter 11: Diffusion barrier Chapter 12: Flexible flat cable Chapter 13: Power electronic substrate Chapter 14: Tape-automated bonding Chapter 15: Printed electronics Chapter 16: IPC (electronics) Chapter 17: Thermal copper pillar bump Chapter 18: Integrated passive devices Chapter 19: Film capacitor Chapter 20: Stéphanie P. Lacour Chapter 21: Glossary of microelectronics manufacturing terms (II) Answering the public top questions about flexible electronics. (III) Real world examples for the usage of flexible electronics in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of flexible electronics' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of flexible electronics.

Download or read book Handbook of Flexible Organic Electronics written by Stergios Logothetidis and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organic flexible electronics represent a highly promising technology that will provide increased functionality and the potential to meet future challenges of scalability, flexibility, low power consumption, light weight, and reduced cost. They will find new applications because they can be used with curved surfaces and incorporated in to a number of products that could not support traditional electronics. The book covers device physics, processing and manufacturing technologies, circuits and packaging, metrology and diagnostic tools, architectures, and systems engineering. Part one covers the production, properties and characterisation of flexible organic materials and part two looks at applications for flexible organic devices. Reviews the properties and production of various flexible organic materials. Describes the integration technologies of flexible organic electronics and their manufacturing methods. Looks at the application of flexible organic materials in smart integrated systems and circuits, chemical sensors, microfluidic devices, organic non-volatile memory devices, and printed batteries and other power storage devices.

Download or read book Flexible and Wearable Electronics written by Haider Raad and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to the state of the art technologies and methods applied in the realization of flexible and wearable electronics. The targeted readers of this book include but not limited to college professors, Research and Development scientists, practicing electronics and material engineers, in addition to all the enthusiasts interested in modern technological advancements. Moreover, the book serves as an extensive resource for graduate students working on topics related to wearable and flexible electronics. This book, organized into eleven chapters, introduces the latest research findings and trends related to the design, fabrication processes and techniques used in the realization of wearable and flexible electronics. Chapter One shows how recent developments in wireless, flexible, fully-printable, and sensor technologies are paving the way for the emergence of ubiquitous sensing capabilities, in the form of "Smart Skins" and the Internet of Things (IoT). The chapter also presents a brief review of state-of-the-art implementations of flexible chemical sensing components technologies; and reviews the latest advances in wireless interrogation techniques for such devices. Chapter Two presents the incremental Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) technique which is aimed at speeding up the circuit simulations while considering process variation and aging effects. Two automated robust design optimization techniques are introduced for the analog circuits with flexible Thin Film Transistors. Chapter Three presents the advantages and suitability of semiconducting Nano Wires (NWs) for flexible and large area electronics. Various aspects of NWs such as physical and chemical properties, synthesis methods, processing, and applications are reviewed with examples. Chapter Four discusses how to fabricate flexible/stretchable piezoelectric devices by the use of electrohydrodynamical direct-writing technique. Furthermore, this chapter provides detailed engineering design rules and paves a cost-effective and high-efficiency manufacturing pathway for applications in wearable and bio-integrated electronics. Chapter Five explores chief approaches towards the development of flexible silicon electronics. The chapter reports some of the most promising methodologies for converting rigid silicon substrates into flexible electronics through the use of silicon-based nanomaterials, etch-release processes, and stress-based wafer spalling. Chapter Six focuses on the use of inkjet printing technique of conductive tracks and electrode patterns on textile substrates. The chapter also reports a two-step fabrication process using UV barrier channels and low viscosity functional inks. Chapter Seven provides an overview of existing wearable technologies for Intra-Body Communication (IBC); it also addresses their potential and challenges, and discusses future directions. Chapter Eight presents the design of a flexible antenna structure operating at multiple frequencies covering WLAN, WiMaX, GPS, and ISM applications. Chapter Nine discusses the design of Near Field Communication (NFC) wearable antennas. The chapter examines the design of such antennas especially for small gadgets like wristbands, watches, and rings. Chapter Ten reports recent advances in the fabrication, structure, mechanism and electrical output performances of various fiber-based and textile-based flexible generators, including piezoelectric, triboelectric and electret generators. Moreover, discussions are provided regarding newfangled applications, current challenges and future directions. Last but not least, the appropriate choice of the electronic elements of wearable sensor nodes including the power source, sensors, digital signal processing components, and transceivers to build up an energy-efficient wearable body area network is discussed in Chapter Eleven.

Download or read book Introduction to Flexible Electronics written by Aftab M. Hussain and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of flexible electronics has grown rapidly over the last two decades with diverse applications including wearable gadgets and medical equipment. This textbook comprehensively covers the fundamental aspects of flexible electronics along with materials and processing techniques. It discusses topics including flexural rigidity, flexible PCBs, organic semiconductors, nanostructured materials, material reliability, electronic reliability, crystalline and polymer materials, semiconductor processing, and flexible silicon in depth. The text covers advantages, disadvantages, and applications of processes such as sol-gel processing and ink-jet printing. Pedagogical features such as solved problems and unsolved exercises are interspersed throughout the text for better understanding. FEATURES Covers major areas such as materials, physics, processes, and applications of flexible electronics Contains homework problems for readers to understand concepts in an easy manner Discusses, in detail, various types of materials, such as flexible silicon, metal oxides, and organic semiconductors Explains the application of flexible electronics in displays, solar cells, and batteries Includes a section on stretchable electronics This textbook is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, electronics, materials science, chemistry, and communication engineering for a course on flexible electronics. Teaching resources are available, including a solutions manual for instructors.