Printed electronics is becoming increasingly important in a variety of newly emerging areas. However, restricted to the rather limited conductive inks and available printing strategies, the current electronics manufacture is usually confined to industry level. Here, we show a highly cost-effective and entirely automatic printing way towards personal electronics making, through introducing a tap...

Printed electronics is quickly emerging with tremendous value in a wide variety of latest electrical engineering areas. However, restricted to the rather limited conductive inks and printing strategies, the currently existing electronics manufacturing tools are generally complicated, expensive, time, material, water and energy consuming, and thus mainly restricted to the industrial use. Here fr...

Advances in the field of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and their uses now offer unique opportunities in the design of ultrasensitive analytical tools. The analytical community continues to search for cost-effective, reliable, and even portable analytical techniques that can give reliable and fast response results for a variety of chemicals and biomolecules. Microcantilevers (MCLs) hav...

Semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes are very promising materials in printed electronics due to their excellent mechanical and electrical property, outstanding printability, and great potential for flexible electronics. Nonetheless, developing scalable and low-cost approaches for manufacturing fully printed high-performance single-wall carbon nanotube thin-film transistors remains a majo...

ARTICLE INFO Cooling of electronics component is one of the major challenges faced by thermal engineers. In recent years, a significant increase in microprocessor power dissipation coupled with CPU size has resulted in an increase in heat fluxes. Microprocessor heat fluxes have also increased for many commercial applications. Therefore, thermal management is becoming one of most challenging iss...

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS ARE emerging as an alternative to conventional silicon electronics for large-area, low-cost applications such as rollable displays and TVs, e-papers, smart sensors, and disposable RFID tags. Through inexpensive manufacturing methods (e.g., ink-jet printing and roll-to-roll imprinting), flexible electronics can be printed on low-cost plastics. This advantage makes flexible e...

1 Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Communications Dept. Bd. V. Parvan 2, 300223 Timisoara, Romania, [email protected] Abstract – This paper presents a novel method of eyes detection on color images of human faces, by using cellular neural networks. Based only on first order interconnections it is easily hard implementable. Experiments made on a standard database show that t...

49 All these systems have an important common feature: they are safety-critical and must therefore be developed according to the highest safety integrity level (SIL4), as defined in the standards applicable to the railway industry (CENELEC 50126, 50128, 50129, Railway Applications Standards [RAMS, software and electronics]). Apart from being suitable for safety-critical operation, railway syste...

Introduction Reliable and accurate pulse oximetry requires the design and operation of the entire system to function together. Contributions ranging from the sensor technology, cabling and electronics, signal processing and alarm technologies, to communicating results to caregivers through local and remote displays, are all critical and interrelated (Figure 1). Many years of experience in each ...

This document describes the SPECS protocol and its implementation. The SPECS is a 10 Mbit/s serial bus, designed to be simple, cheap, reliable and to work in radiation sensitive environments. It is mainly used to download and read back the configuration of the electronics located on the detector. It is made of Master PCI boards and slave daughter boards, provides I2C, JTAG and parallel interfac...