A New Frontier of Printed Electronics: Flexible Hybrid Electronics
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
The performance and integration density of silicon integrated circuits (ICs) have progressed at an unprecedented pace in the past 60 years. While silicon ICs thrive at low-power high-performance computing, creating flexible and large-area electronics using silicon remains a challenge. On the other hand, flexible and printed electronics use intrinsically flexible materials and printing techniques to manufacture compliant and large-area electronics. Nonetheless, flexible electronics are not as efficient as silicon ICs for computation and signal communication. Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) leverages the strengths of these two dissimilar technologies. It uses flexible and printed electronics where flexibility…
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6Topics & keywords
- Electronics
- Printed electronics
- Flexible electronics
- Flexibility (engineering)
- Wearable technology
- Materials science
- Electrical engineering
- Computer science