TT.IV.E

Ravinder DAHIYA  CV
University of Glasgow, UK
Energy-Autonomous Electronic Skin  abst

Piero COSSEDDU  CV
University of Cagliari
Low Voltage Organic Thin Film Transistors: a flexible technology for sensing applications  abst

Luca FRANCIOSO  CV
CNR-IMM, Lecce
Flexible devices for energy  harvesting and chemical sensing  abst

SYNOPSIS

Materials and technologies for flexible, stretchable sensors and electronics have received increasing attention in the last couple of decades.  Thin devices encompass properties like compliance, bendability, conformability, elasticity, lightweight, etc. for a wide range of applications. Here, the overall size of the systems rather than the minimum feature size of an individual circuit component represents the primary scaling metric. An emerging direction in research is to develop innovative materials and techniques, for increasing performances and functionalities, decreasing costs (per unit area), and enabling large area electronic systems.

To this end, this session brings together speakers with complementary expertise in flexible electronics, sensors, modelling, and robotics from key academic and research institutes. The session  will be focused to illustrate a limited set of candidate technologies for flexible electronics encompassing the topics of electronic skin, low voltage thin film transistors, stretchable metal/polymer interconnects, and their applicative scenarios on robotics, prosthetics, and chemical/physical sensing.