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"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-17).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- Inorganic electronic materials -- Organic electronic materials -- Printed electronic devices -- Printing and post-print processes -- 3. Current directions -- Novel materials -- Characterisation techniques -- Device stability -- 4. Outlook.The combination of printing technology with manufacturing electronic devices enables a new paradigm of printable electronics, where 'smart' functionality can be readily incorporated into almost any product at low cost. Over recent decades, rapid progress has been made in this field, which is now emerging into the industrial and commercial realm. However, successful development and commercialisation on a large scale presents some significant technical challenges. For fully-printable electronic systems, all the component parts must be deposited from solutions (inks), requiring the development of new inorganic, organic and hybrid materials. A variety of traditional printing techniques are being explored and adapted for printing these new materials in ways that result in the best performing electronic devices. Whilst printed electronics research has initially focused on traditional types of electronic device such as light-emitting diodes, transistors, and photovoltaics, it is increasingly apparent that a much wider range of applications can be realised. The soft and stretchable nature of printable materials makes them perfect candidates for bioelectronics, resulting in a wealth of research looking at biocompatible printable inks and biosensors. Regardless of application, the properties of printed electronic materials depend on the chemical structures, processing conditions, device architecture,and operational conditions, the complex inter-relationships of which are driving ongoing research. We focus on three particular 'hot topics', where attention is currently focused: novel materials, characterisation techniques, and device stability. With progress advancing very rapidly, printed electronics is expected to grow over the next decade into a key technology with an enormous economic and social impact.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Jessica Wade is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics at Imperial College London, creating chiral molecular structures as the active layer for electronic devices. Jess has been involved in projects to support gender inclusion in science, as well as encouraging more young people to study science and engineering. She has won the IOP Early Career Communicator Prize, 'I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here', the IOP Jocelyn Bell Burnell Award, the IOM3's 'Robert Perrin Award' and the Imperial College Dame Julia Higgins Certificate. She is on the council of the Women's Engineering Society and Young Women's Board of the Women in Science & Engineering campaign. Joseph Razzell Hollis is a NASA postdoctoral fellow and visitingresearcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, sponsored by theUniversities Space Research Association. He has a degree in Chemistry from Sussex University and a PhD in Physics from Imperial College London, where he studied the morphology and photo-stability of semiconducting polymers used in organic solar cells. Outside the lab he is an advocate for greater diversity and inclusivity across STEM, especially for LGBT+ minorities, and runs the LGBT+ Physics group (@LGBT_Physics) on Twitter. Sebastian Wood is an active research scientist based at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). NPL is positioned at the interface between government, academia, and industry with the role of supporting UK industry and quality of life through measurement science and standardisation. Sebastian holds a degree and PhD in Physics from Imperial College London, where he studied organic and hybrid semiconductors for photovoltaic applications. His current research seeks to develop new measurement techniques to support the emerging industry of printed electronics, with a particular focus on characterising nanostructured materials using optical spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy. He is also a keen communicator of science, who enjoys talking about his work to a wide range of audiences from primary school children and the general public, to Members of Parliament and industrial experts.Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 4, 2018).

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1 online resource (x, 17 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color).

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English

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9780750316088

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621.381

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Electronic devices & materials.
Printed electronics.

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Jessica Wade, Joseph Razzell Hollis, Sebastian Wood.

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