Printed microelectronics: From technology to design, rebuilding the path

Abstract

While silicon based technologies are evolving towards very advanced nanometric nodes (≤ 20nm), the emerging thin-flexible-organic-large-area electronics (a.k.a. printed electronics, PE) based on flexible substrates and functional inks are starting again the history of microelectronics at technology and device levels trying to grow up to applications looking at the silicon path but far away from its costs and performances.