Strategies for body-conformable electronics

Electronics for the Human Body

The human body is soft, curvilinear, and continuously evolving;modernelectronicdevicesare rigid,planar, and physically static. Recent research has yielded a complete setofadvancedmaterials,manufacturingapproaches,and design layouts that eliminates this profoundmismatch in properties.Theresultingdevicescan intimately integrate onto or into the humanbody for diagnostic, therapeutic, or surgical f...

ALTERNATIVE LITHOGRAPHY STRATEGIES for FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS

Patterned growth of vertically-aligned ZnO nanorods on a flexible platform for feasible transparent and conformable electronics applications

Despite the attractiveness of low temperature hydrothermal processes, the synthesis of vertical ZnO nanostructures has mostly been limited to rigid substrates. Moreover, patterned growth of nanostructures is also commonly carried out on rigid substrates, since conventional optical lithography is not easily applied to polymeric substrates, as focusing and reaction of the substrate with the organ...

Stretchable Electronics: Materials Strategies and Devices

New electronic materials have the potential to enable wearable computers, personal health monitors, wall-scale displays and other systems that are not easily achieved with established wafer based technologies. A traditional focus of this field is on the development of materials for circuits that can be formed on bendable substrates, such as sheets of plastic or steel foil. More recent efforts s...

Body EMF Absorption: A Design Issue for Implantable Medical Electronics

Recently the human body implantable medical devices have been experiencing a rapid development. Medical implants are an integration of sensing technologies, nano/micro technologies, and wireless communication technologies and are developed as innovative approaches for in vivo body health monitoring, essential life function supporting and diseases controlling/regulating. Those miniaturized medic...