Flexible Electronics (ePub)

"Overall, the work is written at a level suitable for any individual with a reasonable familiarity of device physics and materials science. It will be useful to advanced undergraduate students who show an interest in the field. Also, this work will serve as a strong reference for those graduate students or researchers who are new to the discipline of flexible electronics."CHOICE ConnectThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent development of flexible electronics. This is a fast evolving research field and tremendous progress has been made in the past decade. In this book, new material development and novel flexible device, circuit design, fabrication and characterizations will be introduced. Particularly, recent progress of nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, semiconductor nanowires, nanofibers, for flexible electronic applications, assembly of nanomaterials for large scale device and circuitry, flexible energy devices, such as solar cells and batteries, etc, will be introduced. And through reviewing these cutting edge research, the readers will be able to see the key advantages and challenges of flexible electronics both from material and device perspectives, as well as identify future directions of the field. —>