Integrated Digital Printing of Flexible Circuits for Wireless Sensing

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Event SPIE Optics + Photonics 2016

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Greg Whiting
Tse Nga Ng
Krusor, Brent S.
Ready, Steven E.
Janos Veres
Street, Robert A.
Technical Publications
August 28th 2016
Wireless sensing has broad applications in a wide variety of fields such as infrastructure monitoring, chemistry, environmental engineering and cold supply chain management. Further development of sensing systems will focus on achieving light weight, flexibility, low power consumption and low cost. Fully printed electronics provide excellent flexibility and customizability, as well as the potential for low cost and large area applications, but lack solutions for high-density, high-performance circuitry. Conventional electronics mounted on flexible printed circuit boards provide high performance but are not digitally fabricated or readily customizable. Incorporation of small silicon dies or packaged chips into a printed platform enables high performance without compromising flexibility or cost. At PARC, we combine high functionality c-Si CMOS and digitally printed components and interconnects to create an integrated platform that can read and process multiple discrete sensors. Our approach facilitates customization to a wide variety of sensors and user interfaces suitable for a broad range of applications including remote monitoring of health, structures and environment. This talk will describe several examples of printed wireless sensing systems. The technologies required for these sensor systems are a mix of novel sensors, printing processes, conventional microchips, flexible substrates and energy harvesting power solutions.

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Mei, P. ; Whiting, G.; Schwartz, D. E.; Ng, T.; Krusor, B. S.; Ready, S. E.; Veres, J.; Street, R. A.; Integrated Digital Printing of Flexible Circuits for Wireless Sensing. SPIE Optics + Photonics 2016 .; San Diego , CA USA. Date of Talk: 2016-08-28

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