Mastering the Curve: Layout Strategies for FPC Bend Radius and Reliability
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Learn how early layout evaluation and system planning can help ensure long-term reliability for flexible printed circuits.
Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cells: Conventional Structure Achieving Over 20% Power Conversion Efficiency in Lab
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The solar industry is constantly evolving with new technologies and products. One of the most promising advancements is the third generation of photovoltaic devices: organic solar cells. Also known as organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, these cutting-edge solar cells are gaining attention for their high performance, exceptional light absorption, and remarkable versatility. Their lightweight, flexible design and […]
J.Flex, A Lithium-Ion Battery That Is Flexible
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A Busan-based company has been developing J.Flex, an advanced lithium-ion battery that is ultra-thin, flexible, and rechargeable for the past few years now. The company used terms like bend, roll, twist, scrunch, fold, flex to describe the battery. EJ Shin, head of strategic planning at Jenax says: “What we’re doing at Jenax is putting batteries into […]
A flexible Arduino Prototype
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A lot of makers have started venturing into the wearable world in which everything is portable, invisible, light, flexible and functional. Many have found that using Arduino compromised two of those characteristics. Arduino is not flexible, and it is not invisible which is why it is hard to incorporate into this kind of projects. NextFlex […]
Intexar™ Heat – A Revolutionary Stretchable Ink And Film Technology To Make Flexible Heated Garments
https://www.electronics-lab.com/intexar-heat-revolutionary-stretchable-ink-film-technology-make-flexible-heated-garments/
DuPont Advanced Materials (DuPont) in association with Taiwanese company Formosa Taffeta, has developed a powered smart clothing technology named Intexar™ Heat, for on-body flexible heating garments. The new fabric is thin, lightweight, and durable. The Intexar™ Heat is an ideal solution for outdoor clothing and it is designed to be easily integrated into garments. This […]
Researchers Develop New Technique To Print Flexible Self-healing Circuits For Wearable Devices
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The researchers of North Carolina State University in the US, lead by Jingyan Dong, have developed a new technique for directly printing flexible, stretchable metal circuits. The innovative technique can be used with multiple metals and alloys. It is also compatible with existing manufacturing systems which can integrate this new printing technology effortlessly. The technique uses the well known electrohydrodynamic printing […]
Brand New BiCMOS Flexible Transistor
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The transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things since its very first practically implemented device as a point-contact-transistor invented in 1947 and getting the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. Now, engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) have built the most flexible, fully-functional transistor in the world! The BiCMOS (Bipolar Complementary Metal […]
Researchers Developed New Efficient, Thin, and Flexible Cooling Device
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Engineers and scientists from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International, California, have created a thin flexible device that could keep smartphones and laptop computers cool and prevent overheating. The component is based on the electrocaloric effect – a phenomenon where the temperature of material changes when an electric field is applied to it. The […]
Researchers Developed Hybrid 3D Printing Method To Make Flexible Wearable Devices
https://www.electronics-lab.com/researchers-developed-hybrid-3d-printing-method-make-flexible-wearable-devices/
Wearable electronic devices that intend to track and measure the body’s movements must be soft enough to flex and stretch to accommodate every body-movement. But, integrating rigid electronics on skin-like flexible materials has proven to be challenging. Clearly, Such components cannot stretch like soft materials can, and this mismatch frequently causes wearable devices to fail. […]
Cheap ARM Cortex-m0 MCU Printed on Plastic Costs as low as 0.01$
https://www.electronics-lab.com/cheap-arm-cortex-m0-mcu-printed-plastic-costs-low-0-01/
Flexible electronics is one of the emerging technologies with the rise of connected things in IoT age. This increases the need of low cost electronics to use. PragmatIC the specialized company in low cost flexible electronics wants to enable trillions of “smart objects” to sense and communicate with their environment, but the problem is: to […]