Organic and Hybrid Materials for Flexible Electronics

Electronic materials: buckling down for flexible electronics.

T he success of electronic paper, roll-up displays and many other potential applications of flexible electronics will depend on the availability of electronic materials that can be stretched, compressed and bent. Previous efforts to develop electronic materials that can be mechanically deformed without breaking have mainly focused on small organic molecules and polymers. Unfortunately, these ma...

Pyrene-based materials for organic electronics.

Flexible and Cellulose-based Organic Electronics

Organic electronics is the study of organic materials with electronic functionality and the applications of such materials. In the 1970s, the discovery that polymers can be made electrically conductive led to an explosion within this field which has continued to grow year by year. One of the attractive features of organic electronic materials is their inherent mechanical flexibility, which has ...

Inorganic semiconducting materials for flexible and stretchable electronics

Recent progress in the synthesis and deterministic assembly of advanced classes of single crystalline inorganic semiconductor nanomaterial establishes a foundation for high-performance electronics on bendable, and even elastomeric, substrates. The results allow for classes of systems with capabilities that cannot be reproduced using conventional wafer-based technologies. Specifically, electroni...

Flexible diodes for radio frequency (RF) electronics: a materials perspective

Over the last decade, there has been increasing interest in transferring the research advances in radiofrequency (RF) rectifiers, the quintessential element of the chip in the RF identification (RFID) tags, obtained on rigid substrates onto plastic (flexible) substrates. The growing demand for flexible RFID tags, wireless communications applications and wireless energy harvesting systems that c...