Flexible electronic technology is an emerging science and technology. Due to its unique flexibility and ductility, flexible electronic technology has broad application prospects in many aspects.
Flexible Electronics (Flexible Electronics) is also known as Plastic Electronics, Printed Electronics, Organic Electronics, Polymer Electronics, etc.; it is the production of organic/inorganic material electronic devices in flexible / Emerging electronic technologies on ductile plastic or thin metal substrates.
In people’s impression, organic materials, such as plastics, are good insulators. Few people would think that plastics can also conduct electricity. In recent years, due to new breakthroughs in the research of conductive polymers, organic materials can change from traditional insulators to conductive semiconductors, and flexible electrons have emerged. The development of modern chemistry and other technologies has promoted the development of such a discipline as flexible electronics. The key to flexible electronics manufacturing includes manufacturing processes, substrates, and materials. The core is Micro- and Nanopatterning manufacturing, which involves multidisciplinary research on machinery, materials, physics, chemistry, and electronics.
With its unique flexibility/ductility and high-efficiency, low-cost manufacturing process, flexible electronics has broad application prospects in the fields of information, energy, medical and defense, such as flexible electronic displays, organic light-emitting diodes OLED, printed radio frequency identification (RFID), Thin-film solar panels, electronic newspapers, and electronic skin (Skin Patches)/artificial muscles, etc.
In addition to integrating electronic circuits, electronic components, materials, flat display and nanotechnology, flexible electronics also spans semiconductor, packaging and testing, materials, chemicals, printed circuit boards and display panels and other industries, and can assist traditional industries such as The transformation of plastics, printing, chemical and metal materials industries has increased the added value of the industry. Therefore, the development of flexible electronic technology will surely bring revolutionary changes to the industrial structure and human life.
Flexible electronic technology is a brand-new electronic technology revolution, which has attracted widespread attention from all over the world and has been rapidly developed. The American “Science” magazine listed the progress of organic electronics technology as one of the top ten scientific and technological achievements in the world in 2000, alongside major discoveries such as the draft of the human genome and cloning technology. American scientists Alan Haig, Alan Mark Dilmid and Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work in the field of conductive polymers.
