Flexible Polymeric Substrates for Electronic Applications

TL;DR: In this paper, a flexible substrate is defined when the material is processed such that individual component complies to a comparable degree of bending without deterioration of electronic/optoelectronic performance.

Abstract: The miniaturization of electronics has been following Moore's Law for decades and has resulted in the development of sequentially evolutionized multifunctional nanoengineered devices. The conventional electronic devices are processed over planar hierarchically nanopatterned substrates having mechanical rigidity and stiffness which limit the degree of utility due to its inability to interface with soft curvilinear morphology, brittle nature, and inferior optical transparency. However, flexible substrates assembled over polymeric framework would, therefore, play a key role by offering light weighted thin film architecture, wearability, improved optical transparency, and morphological configuration to curvilinearity. The flexibility of substrate is defined when the material is processed such that individual component complies to a comparable degree of bending without deterioration of electronic/optoelectronic performance. Since the fabricated structure is pliable, the mechanical integrity of the stru...