Flexibility and stretchability of electronics are crucial for next generation electronic devices that involve skin contact sensing and therapeutic actuation. This handbook provides a complete entrée to the field, from solid-state physics to materials chemistry, processing, devices, performance, and reliability testing, and integrated systems development. This work shows how microelectronics, signal processing, and wireless communications in the same circuitry are impacting electronics, healthcare, and energy applications.
Key Features:
• Covers the fundamentals to device applications, including solid-state and mechanics, chemistry, materials science, characterization techniques, and fabrication;
• Offers a comprehensive base of knowledge for moving forward in this field, from foundational research to technology development;
• Focuses on processing, characterization, and circuits and systems integration for device applications;
• Addresses the basic physical properties and mechanics, as well as the nuts and bolts of reliability and performance analysis;
• Discusses various technology applications, from printed electronics to logic and memory devices, sensors, actuators, displays, and energy storage and harvesting.
This handbook will serve as the one-stop knowledge base for readership who are interested in flexible and stretchable electronics.
Table of Contents:
Preface......................................................................................................................vii
Editors ....................................................................................................................... ix
Contributors ............................................................................................................. xi
Section i Fundamentals
1 Plastic Electronics ............................................................................................. 3
Chang-Hyun Kim
2 Materials—Flexible 1D Electronics ................................................................. 23
Aftab M. Hussain
3 Flexible 2D Electronics in Sensors and Bioanalytical Applications .............. 45
Parikshit Sahatiya, Rinky Sha, and Sushmee Badhulika
4 Flexible and Stretchable Thin-Film Transistors ............................................. 63
Joseph B. Andrews, Jorge A. Cardenas, and Aaron D. Franklin
5 Mechanics of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics .........................................91
Nouha Alcheikh
Section ii Devices
6 Printed Electronics ..........................................................................................111
Mohammad Vaseem and Atif Shamim
7 Ferroic Materials and Devices for Flexible Memory .....................................149
Saidur R. Bakaul, Mahnaz Islam, and Md. Kawsar Alam
8 Flexible and Stretchable High-Frequency RF Electronics ............................ 165
Juhwan Lee, Inkyu Lee, and Zhenqiang Ma
9 Flexible and Stretchable Sensors ....................................................................189
Tae Hoon Eom and Jeong In Han
10 Artificial Skin .................................................................................................213
Joanna M. Nassar
11 Flexible and Stretchable Actuators ................................................................ 251
Nadeem Qaiser
12 Flexible and Stretchable Photovoltaics and Its Energy Harvesters ............. 277
Devendra Singh
13 Flexible and Stretchable Energy Storage ....................................................... 301
Arwa Kutbee
14 3D Printed Flexible and Stretchable Electronics ........................................... 315
Galo Torres Sevilla
15 Flexible and Stretchable Paper-Based Structures for
Electronic Applications ..................................................................................337
Tongfen Liang, Ramendra Kishor Pal, Xiyue Zou, Anna Root, and Aaron D. Mazzeo
16 Reliability Assessment of Low-Temperature ZnO-Based Thin-Film
Transistors ......................................................................................................375
Chadwin D. Young, Rodolfo A. Rodriguez-Davila, Pavel Bolshakov,
Richard A. Chapman, and Manuel Quevedo-Lopez
Section iii Systems and Applications
17 Reconfigurable Electronics ........................................................................... 399
Jhonathan Prieto Rojas
18 Flexible and Stretchable Devices for Human-Machine Interfaces ...............415
Irmandy Wicaksono and Canan Dagdeviren
19 Wearable Electronics ..................................................................................... 467
Sherjeel M. Khan and Muhammad Mustafa Hussain
20 Flexible Electronic Technologies for Implantable Applications .................. 487
Sohail Faizan Shaikh
21 Bioresorbable Electronics .............................................................................. 505
Joong Hoon Lee, Gwan-Jin Ko, Huanyu Cheng, and Suk-Wong Hwang
Index .......................................................................................................................525
About the Author :
Muhammad M. Hussain, Nazek El-Atab
