Researchers have devised ways to make flexible electronics, for such things as electronic paper.
Yeah, we get it, flexible electronics -- sans application -- are about as exciting as the circuitry under your keyboard.
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Don't expect a full-fledged version of Morph, which combines flexible electronics, touch-sensitive textured displays and the ability to process sensory information all in one phone.
Flexible electronics will allow circuits, displays and solar captors to be integrated anywhere in the battle suit, including in the soldier's mask, as a transparent display.
After all, the concept - creating flexible electronics and assembling them on equally flexible plastic - has been touted since the 1960s, when the first flexible solar cell arrays appeared.
Now, John Rogers of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who is one of the pioneers of flexible electronics, has devised a new technique to create ultra-thin and flexible circuits suitable for medical use.
Possible applications include flexible electronics and lighter aircraft.
The hope is that pairing up researchers and businesses will hasten the development of material and component manufacturing processes for the carbon-based substance, and make it possible for graphene to find its way into products such as flexible electronics, batteries and faster processors.
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The performance of LIBs has not been sufficient either, thereby difficult to apply to flexible consumer electronics including rollable displays.
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In a sense, the battery is a latecomer to the push toward flexible, stretchable electronics.
While flexible and stretchable electronics have been on the rise, powering them with equally stretchy energy sources has been problematic.
Multi-Fineline Electronics, a provider of flexible printed circuit boards used in mobile phones and other products, late Thursday warned that results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30 will fall short of previous estimates.
Printed electronics holds out the promise of flexible devices that can be fabricated at high volume and low cost.
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Dr Rogers first fabricated a mesh containing a circuit of silicon electronics by thinning silicon until it becomes flexible.
Forecasts are that it will take at least three years before flexible Willow Glass becomes a fundamental ingredient in consumer electronics.
The problem with flexible displays is not so much the screen but the drive electronics that switch the individual polymer pixels on and off.
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