ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

At the outset I express my gratitude to the Almighty God who has been with
me during each and every step that I have taken towards the completion of this seminar.
I thank our beloved Chairman Mr. Sany Edatukkaran and our honorable
Principal Dr. R. Sujatha for providing me the educative infrastructure and learning
ambience which motivated me to a great extent.
I wish to express my humble gratitude and sincere thanks to Mr. Sreejith S,
Head of Electronics and Communication Engineering, for his guidance and constant
supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the topic. I take
immense pleasure in conveying my thanks and deep sense of gratitude Mrs. Lini Paul
and Mrs. Elsa Alias seminar co-coordinators of Electronics and Communication
Engineering.
I would take this opportunity to thank my Guide Mr. Sreejith S for his
exhilarating supervision, timely suggestions and encouragements during all phases of this
work .Also, I would like to thank all the teaching faculties and supporting staff of our
department for advising me wherever in need and arranging the necessary facilities
I would like to convey gratitude to my parents whose prayers and blessings
were always there with me. Last but not least I would like to thank my friends and
others who directly or indirectly helped me in successful completion of this work.

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 ABSTRACT

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. This paper reviews thin-film materials and
technologies for flexible electronics and considers future applications in healthcare, the
automotive industry, human–machine interfaces, mobile devices, and other environments.

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 CONTENTS

Chapter Title Page

No. No.

1 INTRODUCTION 1

2 MATERIALS 3

3 TECHNOLOGIES 6

4 APPLICATIONS 8

4.1 Health Care 8

4.2 Automotive Industry 11

4.3 Displays and Human-Machine Interactivity 13

4.4 Energy Management 15

4.5 Mobile Devices 17

5 CONCLUSION 19

REFERENCE 20

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 LIST OF FIGURES

Figure. No. Title Page No.

1.1 Next generation flexible electronics systems 2

2.1 Flex circuits 3

2.2 Correlation in the field effect mobility 4

The fabrication of short channel transistors using spin-coating-

3.1 7
induced edge effect

TFT fabrication process by a self aligned, one step, multilayered

3.2 7
pattering

4.1.1 Bionic ear 9

4.1.2 Artificial nose and tongue 10

4.2.1 Battery structure 12

4.3.1 Flexible Structure 15

4.4.1 Flexible solar cells 16

4.4.2 Flexible super capacitor 17

4.2.2 General radio system 18

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 LIST OF TABLES

Table. No. Title Page No.

2.1 Comparison of possible plastic substrate for thin-film deposition 5