Flexible Electronics Materials and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Salleo, Alberto (Editor), Wong, William S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Electronic Materials: Science & Technology, 11
• Subjects: Materials science.; Polymers.; Condensed matter.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Polymer Sciences.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

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 discus...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of Flexible Electronics Technology
• Mechanical Theory of the Film-on-Substrate-Foil Structure: Curvature and Overlay Alignment in Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Devices Fabricated on Free-Standing Foil Substrates
• Low-temperature Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon Materials and Thin-film Transistors
• Amorphous Silicon: Flexible Backplane and Display Application
• Flexible Transition Metal Oxide Electronics and Imprint Lithography
• Materials and Novel Patterning Methods for Flexible Electronics
• Sheet-Type Sensors and Actuators
• Organic and Polymeric TFTs for Flexible Displays and Circuits
• Semiconducting Polythiophenes for Field-Effect Transistor Devices in Flexible Electronics: Synthesis and Structure Property Relationships
• Solution Cast Films of Carbon Nanotubes for Transparent Conductors and Thin Film Transistors
• Physics and Materials Issues of Organic Photovoltaics
• Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells for Large-Area PV Fabrication on Flexible Substrates
• Substrates and Thin-Film Barrier Technology for Flexible Electronics.