Book description
With its comprehensive coverage this handbook and ready reference
brings together some of the most outstanding scientists in the field to
lay down the undisputed knowledge on how to make electronics stretchable.
As such, it focuses on gathering and evaluating the materials, designs,
models and technologies that enable the fabrication of fully elastic
electronic devices which can sustain high strain. Furthermore, it
provides a review of those specific applications that directly benefit
from highly compliant electronics, including transistors, photonic
devices and sensors. In addition to stretchable devices, the topic of
ultraflexible electronics is also treated, highlighting its upcoming
significance for the industry-scale production of consumer electronic goods.
An unprecedented overview of this thriving area of research that nobody
in the field -- or intending to enter it -- can afford to miss.
Takao Someya is Professor in the Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan. From 2001 to
2003, he worked at the Nanocenter of Columbia University, USA, and Bell
Labs, Lucent Technologies, as a Visiting Scholar. His current research
interests include organic transistors, flexible electronics, plastic
integrated circuits, large-area sensors, and plastic actuators. Takao
Someya has received a number of awards including the Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science Prize, the first prize of the newly established
German Innovation Award, the 2004 IEEE/ISSCC Sugano Award, and the 2009
IEEE Paul Rappaport Award.
