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 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 Wearable and Stretchable Electronics written by Katsuyuki Sakuma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 373 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 The Flexible Electronics Opportunity written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs for Flexible Electronics and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible electronics describes circuits that can bend and stretch, enabling significant versatility in applications and the prospect of low-cost manufacturing processes. They represent an important technological advance, in terms of their performance characteristics and potential range of applications, ranging from medical care, packaging, lighting and signage, consumer electronics and alternative energy (especially solar energy.) What these technologies have in common is a dependence on efficient manufacturing that currently requires improved technology, processes, tooling, and materials, as well as ongoing research. Seeking to capture the global market opportunity in flexible electronics, major U.S. competitors have initiated dedicated programs that are large in scope and supported with significant government funding to develop and acquire these new technologies, refine them, and ultimately manufacture them within their national borders. These national and regional investments are significantly larger than U.S. investment and more weighted toward later stage applied research and development. The Flexible Electronics Opportunity examines and compares selected innovation programs both foreign and domestic, and their potential to advance the production of flexible electronics technology in the United States. This report reviews the goals, concept, structure, operation, funding levels, and evaluation of foreign programs similar to major U.S. programs, e.g., innovation awards, S&T parks, and consortia. The report describes the transition of flexible electronics research into products and to makes recommendations to improve and to develop U.S. programs. Through an examination of the role of research consortia around the world to advance flexible electronics technology, the report makes recommendations for steps that the U.S. might consider to develop a robust industry in the United States. Significant U.S. expansion in the market for flexible electronics technologies is not likely to occur in the absence of mechanisms to address investment risks, the sharing of intellectual property, and the diverse technology requirements associated with developing and manufacturing flexible electronics technologies. The Flexible Electronics Opportunity makes recommendations for collaboration among industry, universities, and government to achieve the critical levels of investment and the acceleration of new technology development that are needed to catalyze a vibrant flexible electronics industry.
Download or read book A System Designed for Flexible Electronics Manufacturing written by Robert N. Hosier and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Flexible Electronics written by Guozhen Shen and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book gives an excellent introduction to flexible electronics, which refers to the science and technology of using flexible materials for manufacturing electronic circuits and optoelectronic devices. I recommend this book to all interested in this subject." MRS Bulletin "Overall, the work is written at a level suitable for any individual with a reasonable familiarity of device physics and materials science. It will be useful to advanced undergraduate students who show an interest in the field. Also, this work will serve as a strong reference for those graduate students or researchers who are new to the discipline of flexible electronics." CHOICE Connect "Overall, the work is written at a level suitable for any individual with a reasonable familiarity of device physics and materials science. It will be useful to advanced undergraduate students who show an interest in the field. Also, this work will serve as a strong reference for those graduate students or researchers who are new to the discipline of flexible electronics." CHOICE Connect 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 Advanced Materials for Printed Flexible Electronics written by Colin Tong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 0 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 European Research and Development in Hybrid Flexible Electronics written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing miniaturization and complexity of emerging electronics products and systems brings many technical challenges but also excellent promise for improving capabilities and reducing costs through printing-like manufacturing processes and through combining of functionalities in what are called hybrid flexible electronics systems. Important application areas include energy, consumer electronics, healthcare, communications, and national defense. This report is a review of hybrid flexible electronics research and development activities in Western Europe, conducted by a panel of leading U.S. experts in the field, as a window to view what opportunities and challenges exist for U.S. researchers, educators, and manufacturers in this highly interdisciplinary field. The report covers materials development, device challenges, systems opportunities, and processing and manufacturing topics. It also includes a section that reviews several of the large European innovation centers that are bringing a multidisciplinary and practical commercial focus to R & D in the field. The report details the strengths of the basic research being conducted in Europe and the vitality of the close partnerships between university groups, basic research laboratories, industry, and innovation centers, sustained by sizeable research grants that specifically promote such interactions and efficiently support development. Appendix C summarizes the results of the WTEC bibliometric study of world research in hybrid flexible electronics, 1994?2008, which includes a view of the status of R & D in this field in Asia as well as in Europe and the United States.
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 Flexible Electronics written by Vinod Kumar Khanna and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rising to the Challenge written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's position as the source of much of the world's global innovation has been the foundation of its economic vitality and military power in the post-war. No longer is U.S. pre-eminence assured as a place to turn laboratory discoveries into new commercial products, companies, industries, and high-paying jobs. As the pillars of the U.S. innovation system erode through wavering financial and policy support, the rest of the world is racing to improve its capacity to generate new technologies and products, attract and grow existing industries, and build positions in the high technology industries of tomorrow. Rising to the Challenge: U.S. Innovation Policy for Global Economy emphasizes the importance of sustaining global leadership in the commercialization of innovation which is vital to America's security, its role as a world power, and the welfare of its people. The second decade of the 21st century is witnessing the rise of a global competition that is based on innovative advantage. To this end, both advanced as well as emerging nations are developing and pursuing policies and programs that are in many cases less constrained by ideological limitations on the role of government and the concept of free market economics. The rapid transformation of the global innovation landscape presents tremendous challenges as well as important opportunities for the United States. This report argues that far more vigorous attention be paid to capturing the outputs of innovation - the commercial products, the industries, and particularly high-quality jobs to restore full employment. America's economic and national security future depends on our succeeding in this endeavor.
Download or read book Report to Congress of the U S China Economic and Security Review Commission written by U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2004 Report to Congress of the U S China Economic and Security Review Commission written by U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computing and information and communications technology (ICT) has dramatically changed how we work and live, has had profound effects on nearly every sector of society, has transformed whole industries, and is a key component of U.S. global leadership. A fundamental driver of advances in computing and ICT has been the fact that the single-processor performance has, until recently, been steadily and dramatically increasing year over years, based on a combination of architectural techniques, semiconductor advances, and software improvements. Users, developers, and innovators were able to depend on those increases, translating that performance into numerous technological innovations and creating successive generations of ever more rich and diverse products, software services, and applications that had profound effects across all sectors of society. However, we can no longer depend on those extraordinary advances in single-processor performance continuing. This slowdown in the growth of single-processor computing performance has its roots in fundamental physics and engineering constraints-multiple technological barriers have converged to pose deep research challenges, and the consequences of this shift are deep and profound for computing and for the sectors of the economy that depend on and assume, implicitly or explicitly, ever-increasing performance. From a technology standpoint, these challenges have led to heterogeneous multicore chips and a shift to alternate innovation axes that include, but are not limited to, improving chip performance, mobile devices, and cloud services. As these technical shifts reshape the computing industry, with global consequences, the United States must be prepared to exploit new opportunities and to deal with technical challenges. The New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing: Implications for U.S. Competitiveness and National Security outlines the technical challenges, describe the global research landscape, and explore implications for competition and national security.
Download or read book Commerce Justice Science and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2014 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Technology Competitiveness written by United States. General Accounting Office. National Security and International Affairs Division and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on U.S. competitiveness in a wide spectrum of high-technology areas, focusing on trade balances in high-tech products, R&D spending, patents, and scientific publications. Includes assessments of trends in the U.S. position over the past decade, particularly relative to Japan. 30 tables.
