Smaller form factors and dynamic applications have made flexible circuits an essential part of today’s electronic devices. Although flexible electronics is well established and constantly growing industry, this technology has its limitations. Flexible circuits can typically bend along one axis and cannot therefore conform to arbitrary shapes like for example human skin. The transition to stretc...

The use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in lithographic printing cleanup is an environmental and occupational hazard. Regulations to reduce ambient ozone levels limited VOC emissions from lithographic cleanup operations and spurred the development of low-VOC alternatives. The purpose of this project was to promote the substitution of hazardous cleanup solvents with less toxic chemicals to ...

In this chapter we focus on image segmentation techniques for some very special images — textile images. They are generated from the color halftoning technique in textile and printing production lines. In contrast with natural color images, textile images have some very distinctive features: (1) generally there are a few dominant colors in a textile image, whereas there may exist hundreds of si...