Flexible electronics: The next ubiquitous platform
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Thin-film electronics in its myriad forms has underpinned much of the technological innovation in the fields of displays, sensors, and energy conversion over the past four decades. This technology also forms the basis of flexible electronics. Here we review the current status of flexible electronics and attempt to predict the future promise of these pervading technologies in healthcare, environmental monitoring, displays and human-machine interactivity, energy conversion, management and storage, and communication and wireless networks.
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Computation, displays, energy generation, energy storage, flexible substrates, healthcare, human-machine interactivity, lab-on-chip, mobility, sensors, thin-film technology, wireless networks
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Proceedings of the IEEE
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0018-9219
1558-2256
1558-2256
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100
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/F063865/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H00274X/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H00274X/1)