Printed and Flexible Electronics for Wearables

Abstract

Printed and flexible electronics is an emerging clean-tech electronics technology enabled by the solution processable functional materials and optimized high-throughput printing process. Comparing to wafer fab based traditional microelectronics manufacturing, graphic arts printing technology promises low infrastructure cost, high throughput, roll-to-roll/sheet-fed and large area enabled manufacturing. The solution processable functional inks allow the use of printing technology to fabricate functional films, large area electronics components and integrated circuits. These developments have led to variety of low cost electronics components, sensors, large area display and lighting, flexible photovoltaic, and intelligent packaging applications.