Printing practice for the fabrication of flexible and stretchable electronics

Recently, flexible and stretchable electronics have experienced tremendous surge due to their promised applications in fields such as wearable electronics, portable energy devices, flexible display, and human-skin sensors. In order to fabricate flexible and stretchable electronics, a high-throughput...

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Published inScience China. Technological sciences Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 224 - 232
Main Author Cui, Zheng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Beijing Science China Press 01.02.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Display devices
Electronic devices
Electronics
Engineering
Hybrid circuits
Hybrid systems
Portable equipment
Printing
Review
Semiconductor devices
Thin film transistors
flexible electronics
electronic inks
printed electronics
stretchable electronics
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Summary:Recently, flexible and stretchable electronics have experienced tremendous surge due to their promised applications in fields such as wearable electronics, portable energy devices, flexible display, and human-skin sensors. In order to fabricate flexible and stretchable electronics, a high-throughput, cost-saving, and eco-friendly manufacturing technology is required. Printing, which is an additive patterning process, can meet those requirements. In this article, printing fabrication is compared with conventional lithography process. Practices at the author’s group utilizing printing for the fabrication of flexible thin-film transistors, flexible hybrid circuits and stretchable systems are presented, which has proven that printing can indeed be a viable method to fabricate flexible and stretchable electronics.
ISSN:1674-7321
1869-1900
DOI:10.1007/s11431-018-9388-8