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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Flexible substrate"”.
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Analog and Digital Circuits in a Complementary Organic TFT Technology on Flexible Substrate
… decades, organic semiconductor technology on flexible substrate is attracting the interest of both academia and industrial communities since it is considered a very promising alternative to silicon technology in those applications where low cost, flexibility, and capability to cover large …
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Design, Fabrication, and Validation of Membrane-Based Sensors
… of the human ear. To develop this sensor, a flexible substrate with internal compartments for hosting the biomolecules and mating cap are constructed and experimentally characterized. The regulated attachment method (RAM) is used to form bilayers within the sealed device. Capacitance …
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Carbon nanotube strain sensors with wide dynamic range fabricated on flexible substrates by novel processing techniques
Carbon nanotube (CNT) strain sensors on flexible polyimide substrates with novel fabrication techniques have been fabricated. Excimer laser photoablation was used for simultaneous patterning of the CNT layer and the polyimide substrate. A transferring technique utilizing sacrificial etching was …
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Carbon nanotube assisted formation of sub-50 nm polymeric nano-structures
… quantum dots (QDs) on patterned polymer substrates. Poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride) (PSMa) was prepared by the initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) method, an alternative to spin-on deposition. The sub-50 nm PSMa polymer patterns were prepared by low energy oxygen plasma etching …
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Adsorption and multilayer assembly of charged macromolecules on neutral hydrophobic surfaces and applications to surface patterning
… composite thin films on a flexible substrate.
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Epitaxial Nd-Fe-B films: Growth, texture, magnetism and the influence of mechanical elongation
… were prepared on single crystal MgO (001) substrates with different buffer layers in order to obtain good textures with different surface morphology. The smooth and continuous epitaxial films were suitable for performing magnetization measurements under stress. Although the magnetostriction …
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Strain sensor array using printed single crystalline silicon on plastic substrate
… using single crystalline silicon on plastic substrate, and describes the Colpitts oscillator that has the potential of wireless data transmission between sensor and data acquisition unit. In general, a metal strain gauge has high flexibility with low sensitivity, whereas the semiconductor …
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Wetting of non rigid surfaces
… of anti-wetting surfaces, many superhydrophobic substrates comprise rigid structures on rigid substrates. The development of a thin flexible substrate would allow new avenues to be explored to fully take advantage of the non-wetting properties of superhydrophobicity. This thesis presents a novel …
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ULTRA-FAST LASER ENHANCED PRINTING OF NANOMATERIAL FOR HIGH QUALITY TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE
… film after direct printing. Rigid glass substrate was chosen as the substrate to load nanomaterials printing; however, this laser processing also can be utilized to nanomaterials printed on flexible substrate like polymer and bendable glass. Aluminum doped zinc oxide nanoparticles and …
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Functionalization of Surfaces Using Photolithography and Other Techniques
… the form of photoresists that are used to create substrates for laser ablation. Adjusting the composition of the photoresists leads to the formation of unique structures during this laser ablation. Another application of photoresists that was studied is the creation of transferable microstructures …
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Automation of soft lithography
… large area in case of soft lithography, flexible substrate using microcontact printing in order to forming electronic circuit patterns for flexible displays. At first, the general principles and characteristics of soft lithography are reviewed in order to provide the snapshot of soft …
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Printed microscale inorganic light emitting diodes on flexible substrates for display, biomedical, and robotic applications
Flexible electronics can offer various advantages such as intimate, conformal contacts to curvilinear surfaces and a high level of tolerance to an external strain over the conventional devices integrated on rigid platforms. With suitable choices of materials, design, and integrating strategies, …
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Physical Encapsulation of Interface Bilayers
… techniques include the lack of a supporting substrate which simplifies bilayer formation and the ability to connect many droplets to form `cell-inspired' networks which can provide a collective utility based on the compositions and arrangement of the droplets. The research present herein …
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Printing Conductive Paths for Electronic Functional Devices
… (PDMS) stamps onto treated glass substrates. Two drop-on-demand inkjet printers; one is a commercial desktop piezoelectric printer and a second thermal PEL printing and coating platform, were utilised to inkjet print functional materials. The cheap piezoelectric one used to deposit …
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Stretchable, multimodal, large-area sensor arrays fabricated using excimer laser photoablation technologies
… design, electronic textiles, tactile sensors for flexible displays, and low-cost sensors for consumer applications. These applications have a unique set of requirements, including support for multimodal sensory input, conformability to non-planar substrates, and low-cost, large area fabrication. …
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Inkjet printing of resistive-type humidity sensor for harsh environments
A flexible resistive-type humidity sensor for harsh environments is successfully designed and fabricated by an inkjet printing method using a Dimatix materials printer (DMP-2800 series from Fujifilm). Construction of the sensors is based on inkjet printed interdigitated silver electrodes on a …
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In-sensor information processing for resource-limited platforms on flexible epidermal substrates
… on embedding intelligence on the epidermal flexible substrates to extract and analyze critical biomedical information for in-situ diagnosis. The primary objective of this work is illustrating the advantages of epidermal electronics combined with robust information processing systems, at …
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Flexible Electronics: Materials and Device Fabrication
… and fabrication techniques to manufacture flexible electronic devices from them. Conductive ink formulations and inkjet printing of gold and silver on plastic substrates were examined. Line patterning and mask printing methods were also investigated as a means of selective metal deposition …
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Design and development of novel radio frequency identification (RFID) tag structures
… with cost optimization and can be realized on flexible substrates such as liquid crystal polymer (LCP), paper-based substrate and magnetic composite material for conformal applications. The demand for flexible RFID tags has recently increased tremendously due to the requirements of automatic …
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Flexible Mems: A Novel Technology To Fabricate Flexible Sensors And Electronics
… and fabrication techniques used to fabricate flexible MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) devices.</p> <p> MEMS devices and CMOS(Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) circuits are traditionally fabricated on rigid substrates with inorganic semiconductor materials such as Silicon. …
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