In the last years, the development of new materials as well as advanced fabrication
techniques have enabled the transformation of electronics from bulky rigid structures into …

Two-dimensional materials created ab initio by the process of condensation of atoms,
molecules, or ions, called thin films, have unique properties significantly different from the …

Thin films and thin film devices have a ubiquitous presence in numerous conventional and
emerging technologies. This is because of the recent advances in nanotechnology, the …

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 …

Flexible-electronics is rapidly finding many main-stream applications where low-cost,
ruggedness, light weight, unconventional form factors and ease of manufacturability are just …

Soft stretchable thick–thin-film devices are prepared by merging different fabrication
technologies with different functional materials. The new “island–bridge” devices rely on …

Recent efforts in the semiconductor industry have focused on the realization of electronics
with unusual form factors and functions which are not achievable using the current planar Si …

Recent progress in fabricating flexible electronics has been significantly developed because
of the increased interest in flexible electronics, which can be applied to enormous fields, not …

In recent years, there has been a convergence of fundamental materials science and
materials processing methods. This convergence, although highly interdisciplinary in nature …

A new process derived from screen-printing technology and based on thick sacrificial layers
has been developed in our laboratory for the fabrication of films partially released from the …