Overview
- Includes applications of novel materials (both organic and inorganic materials) in flexible electronics
- Describes the relationship between materials requirements and electronic device performance
- Covers device characterization techniques used to qualify performance for various electronic device applications
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Electronic Materials: Science & Technology (EMST, volume 11)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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About this book
Flexible-electronics is rapidly finding many main-stream applications where low-cost, ruggedness, light weight, unconventional form factors and ease of manufacturability are just some of the important advantages over their conventional rigid-substrate counterparts. Flexible Electronics: Materials and Applications surveys the materials systems and processes that are used to fabricate devices that can be employed in a wide variety of applications, including flexible flat-panel displays, medical image sensors, photovoltaics, and electronic paper. Materials discussed range from polymeric semiconductors to nanotube transparent conductors, highlighting the important characteristics of each system and their target applications. An overview of the performance benchmarks for the different materials is given in order to allow a direct comparison of these different technologies. Furthermore, the devices and processes most suitable for given applications in flexible electronics are identified.
Topics covered include:
- An overview and history of flexible electronics
- Novel materials for solution-processable thin-film electronic devices and their properties
- Low-temperature processing of conventional materials and devices on plastic foils
- Novel techniques, such as printing and roll-to-roll processing, for large-area flexible electronics manufacturing
- Materials and device physics relevant to flexible electronics
- Device integration on flexible substrates
- Mechanical and electronic characteristics for thin-film transistors and nano-scale transparent conductors on flexible platforms
- Applications towards flexible displays, sensors, actuators, solar energy, radio-frequency identification, and micro-electro-mechanical systems
Written by leading researchers in the field, Flexible Electronics: Materials and Applications serves as a reference for researchers, engineers, and students interested in the characteristics, capabilities, and limitations of these exciting materials and emerging applications.
About the authors
William Wong received his B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1990, his M.S. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1995 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. He was an associated research engineer for Siemens Solar Industries in Camarillo, CA, form 1990-1992. Since 2000, he has been a senior member of the research staff at the Palo Alto Research Center.
Alberto Salleo received his physics degree in 1994 from Ecole Polytechnique in France; his M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998; and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. He has held several positions such as visiting scholar and graduate student researcher and currently is a researcher in the Electronic Materials Laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center. In January, 2006, he will become an Assistant Professor for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flexible Electronics
Book Subtitle: Materials and Applications
Editors: Alberto Salleo, William S. Wong
Series Title: Electronic Materials: Science & Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74363-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-74362-2Published: 28 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4494-8Published: 08 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-74363-9Published: 09 April 2009
Series ISSN: 1386-3290
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 462
Number of Illustrations: 245 b/w illustrations
Topics: Optical and Electronic Materials, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Polymer Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials