ECSkin: Tessellating Electrochromic Films for Reconfigurable On-skin Displays

IF 4.3 3区材料科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

ACS Applied Electronic Materials Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI:10.1145/3659613

Pin-Sung Ku, Shuwen Jiang, Wei-Hsin Wang, H. Kao

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Abstract

Emerging electrochromic (EC) materials have advanced the frontier of thin-film, low-power, and non-emissive display technologies. While suitable for wearable or textile-based applications, current EC display systems are manufactured in fixed, pre-designed patterns that hinder the potential of reconfigurable display technologies desired by on-skin interactions. To realize the customizable and scalable EC display for skin wear, this paper introduces ECSkin, a construction toolkit composed of modular EC films. Our approach enables reconfigurable designs that display customized patterns by arranging combinations of premade EC modules. An ECSkin device can pixelate patterns and expand the display area through tessellating congruent modules. We present the fabrication of flexible EC display modules with accessible materials and tools. We performed technical evaluations to characterize the electrochromic performance and conducted user evaluations to verify the toolkit's usability and feasibility. Two example applications demonstrate the adaptiveness of the modular display on different body locations and user scenarios.

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ECSkin：用于可重构皮肤显示器的棋盘格电致变色薄膜

新兴的电致变色（EC）材料推动了薄膜、低功耗和非辐射显示技术的发展。目前的电致变色显示系统虽然适用于可穿戴或基于纺织品的应用，但其制造模式是固定的、预先设计好的，这阻碍了皮肤互动所需的可重新配置显示技术的潜力。为了实现可定制和可扩展的皮肤穿戴式电子显微镜，本文介绍了由模块化电子显微镜薄膜组成的构造工具包 ECSkin。我们的方法实现了可重新配置的设计，通过排列组合预制的电子导电膜模块来显示定制的图案。ECSkin 设备可将图案像素化，并通过将相同的模块拼成棋盘格来扩大显示区域。我们介绍了利用可获得的材料和工具制作柔性电子导电体显示模块的方法。我们进行了技术评估以确定电致变色性能的特征，并进行了用户评估以验证工具包的可用性和可行性。两个应用实例展示了模块化显示屏在不同身体位置和用户场景下的适应性。

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ACS Applied Electronic Materials Multiple-

CiteScore

7.20

自引率

4.30%

发文量

567

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Electronic Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of electronic materials. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials science, engineering, optics, physics, and chemistry into important applications of electronic materials. Sample research topics that span the journal's scope are inorganic, organic, ionic and polymeric materials with properties that include conducting, semiconducting, superconducting, insulating, dielectric, magnetic, optoelectronic, piezoelectric, ferroelectric and thermoelectric. Indexed/Abstracted： Web of Science SCIE Scopus CAS INSPEC Portico