A flexible high potential printed battery for powering printed electronics

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Event Applied Physics Letters

Authors

Tse Nga Ng
Gregory L Whiting
Technical Publications
June 12th 2013
Mechanically flexible arrays of alkaline electrochemical cells fabricated using stencil printing onto fibrous substrates are shown to provide the necessary performance characteristics for driving ink-jet printed circuits. Due to the dimensions and material set currently required for reliable low-temperature print processing of electronic devices, a battery potential greater than that sourced by single cells is typically needed. The developed battery is a series interconnected array of 10 low resistance Zn-MnO2 alkaline cells, giving an open circuit potential of 14 V. This flexible battery is used to power an ink-jet printed 5-stage complementary ring oscillator based on organic semiconductors.

Citation

Gaikwad, A. M.; Steingart, D. A.; Ng, T.; Schwartz, D. E.; Whiting, G. L. A flexible high voltage printed battery for powering printed electronics. Applied Physics Letters. 2013; 102: 233302.

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