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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.
List of contents
1. Flexible, Wearable, and Stretchable Electronics. 2. Stretchable Conductor. 3. Components and Devices. 4. Printing Techniques. 5. Carbon Nanotube-Based Flexible Electronics. 6. Flexible Sensor Sheets for Healthcare Applications. 7. Controlled Spalling Technology. 8. Flexible and Stretchable Liquid Metal Electronics. 9. Advanced Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE). 10. Metal-Laminated Fabric Substrates and Flexible Textile Interconnection. 11. Flexible and Stretchable Systems for Healthcare and Mobility. 12. Fabrication of Transparent Antennas on Flexible Glass. 13. Testing and Reliability Characterization Methods for Flexible Hybrid Electronics.
About the author
Katsuyuki Sakuma is a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in NY. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan and at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Summary
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.
