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Based on a new generation of materials, printed, flexible and stretchable (PFS) sensors and electronics will enable new possibilities in a diverse range industries from healthcare to automotive to buildings.

The recent growth of Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables has created the need for electronics and sensor systems that are small, lightweight, mechanically flexible and low- power. These systems must also be able to conform to the shape of and survive the environment in which they must operate. They are typically fabricated on flexible plastic substrates or are printed/woven into fabrics.


Applications covered in this report include:

Electronic components and displays

- Multilayer printing of circuitry.
- Large-area electronic-based sensors for Internet of Things (IoT)
- Organic-semiconductor based circuits.
- Highly stretchable large-area sensors.
- Large-area flexible electronic devices.
- Inkjet-printed stretchable electrodes.
- Stretchable, biocompatible and biodegradable substrates.
- Wireless sensors and networks.

Energy harvesting and storage

- RF, piezo and thermal harvesting.
- Flexible PV cells.
- Printed PV cells.
- Printed flexible energy harvesting devices.
- OLED lighting.
- Novel interconnects.
- Printable batteries and supercapacitors.
- Flexible thermoelectric devices.

Smart wearables

- Stretchable/ultra-flexible electronics.
- Fitness monitoring.
- Biosensors for sports.

Automotive

- Integrated dashboards.
- Flexible OLEDs.

Healthcare and medical

- Flexible X-ray imaging.
- On-body ECG monitoring.
- Biosensors and electronics to interface biological tissue.
- Artificial skins.
- Printed and Flexible Sensors for Vital Signs Monitoring.

Development areas covered include:

- New organic semiconducting materials for organic electronics
- Conductive inks for 2D and 3D printed devices
- Flexible IGZO backplanes
- Stretchable thermoformed inks.
- OTFTs (organic thin-film transistors).
- Solution processed polymer semiconductors for thin-film transistors.
- Transparent conducting films (TCF) for touch sensors.
- Organic thin film transistors (OTFT)
- Organic photodetectors (OPD).
- Nanomaterials based printed, flexible and stretchable electronics and applications.
- Graphene for flexible electronics.
- Flexible transparent conductive electrodes for Organic Devices.
- Hybrid transparent conductors for deformable displays.


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