Applications of Large-area Electronics on Foil

Applications addressed by large-area electronics give the motivation to push further the research on large-area TFT manufacturing processes and circuit design. Since the birth of electronics, the main research goals have been miniaturization and increasing computational power. Today’s focus is turning back to people, and electronics aims now to pervade daily life. From this prospective, standard transistor technologies do not provide anymore a solution suitable to all demands. For innovative applications mechanical properties may become more important than performance, or cost must be sometimes evaluated with respect to the area and not to the complexity of the function realized. In this chapter several applications enabled by large area electronics on foil will be reviewed.

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