Silicone-Based Soft Electronics
2014 (English)In: Concise Encyclopedia of High Performance Silicones, Wiley , 2014, p. 273-292Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Lately, the marriage of elastic silicone rubbers and electronics has given birth to a radically new class of electronic devices and systems, so-called silicone-based soft electronics. Based on this new concept, electronics can nowadays be built in soft, rubbery, biological formats, for enabling numerous new applications, in which conventional rigid electronics are impossible to use. This chapter briefly reviews recent research advances in the emerging field of soft electronics. Various strategies for realizing elastic electronics are addressed, and the focus of this chapter lies in microfluidic approaches. Recently reported elastomeric soft electronic devices using microfluidic techniques, e.g., elastic passive antennas, a soft RF radiation sensor, as well as a reversibly stretchable, body-worn wireless strain sensor, are presented and analyzed in detail. Lastly, future perspectives and outlook for silicone-based soft electronics are discussed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley , 2014. p. 273-292
Keywords [en]
Antennas, elastomers, galinstan, integrated circuits (ICs), liquid alloy, microfluidics, planar inverted cone antenna (PICA), polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), radiofrequency (RF), sensors, silicones, stretchable electronics, ultrawideband (UWB), voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs)
National Category
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-356282DOI: 10.1002/9781118938478.ch18Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85208206899OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-356282DiVA, id: diva2:1912866
Note
QC 20241114
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