Flextronics: Devices & Applications

Catalog description

This is designed as a broad introduction to flexible and printed electronics technologies, an `ecosystem’ of electronic and optical devices and fabrication technologies that build mixed-signal integrated electronic systems, displays, optical devices as well as energy harvesting and storage systems on flexible substrates such as plastic, paper and textile. Flextronics technology has remarkable potential for innovation, and incorporates, more or less, every device technology conventional `hard’ electronics and photonics have in store. As such, it covers a very large body of knowledge which is surveyed in this class by use of review papers, technical reports from experts and research articles. In an orthogonal fashion, essential materials and fabrication tools, device principles and examples as well as major application areas are targeted in this class with an objective of introducing students to opportunities, challenges and interdisciplinary context of flextronics that is expected to drive sizable market expansion and novel solutions in electronics in the next decade.