An emerging new frontier of microelectronics is linked to new materials and approaches that allow for cheap microelectronic and nanoelectronic devices and circuits on unconventional flexible large-area substrates. These new electronic circuits will be comparable in size, or even larger than, a human body. Giant electronics on flexible substrates will enable numerous applications ranging from electrotextiles to flexible displays and photovoltaic devices, and from “sensitive skin” for robotics and medical applications to antiterrorist systems built into smart, safe, and environmentally friendly buildings. The work has just begun, which makes this new emerging technology even more exciting. Revolutionary advances in developing new generations of materials and devices are expected to lead to the development of devices and integrated circuits on flexible substrates and on electrotextiles. New flexible materials, such as polymer-based nanocomposites, will bridge the nano-, micro-, and macroscale by applying new capabilities of nano- and biotechnology to macro objects. This new approach will make possible the use of robots operating in unstructured surroundings and will find novel applications in industry, environmental control, medicine, biology, and defense.
Session Topics
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Materials and devices for flexible electronics
- Fibers with changeable electrical properties
- Fiber-based electronics
- Textile technology for electronic applications
- Nanotechnology on flexible substrates
- Biologically active fibers and textiles
- Actuation in textiles
- Displays on textiles
- Electrical textiles and embedded sensors
- Toward MEMs on cloth
- Data processing for giant-area sensor arrays
- Semiconductor devices on cloth
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Invited Speakers
Invited speakers include: Virginia Chu (Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal), Subhendu Guha (United Solar Systems Corp.), Michael Hack (United Display Corp.), Troy Nagle (North Carolina State Univ.), Maggie Orth (International Fashion Machines), Markus Schubert (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany), and Sigurd Wagner (Princeton Univ.). |
Symposium Organizers
Michael S. Shur
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th St.
Troy, NY 12180-3590
Tel: 518-276-2201
Fax: 518-276-2990
shurm@rpi.edu |
Patricia Wilson
Foster-Miller, Inc.
195 Bear Hill Rd.
Waltham, MA 02451
Tel: 781-684-4171
Fax: 781-290-0693, twilson@foster-miller.com |
Martin Stutzmann
Walter Schottky Institut
Am Coulombwall 3
85748 Garching, Germany
Tel: 49-89-2891-2760
Fax: 49-89-2891-2737
stutz@wsi.tum.de |
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