flexible electronics

The FLEX Conference, held again this year in conjunction with SEMICON West 2023, provided numerous examples of continued developments in flexible, printed, and flexible hybrid electronics technologies applied to sensing, robotics, communications, and other applications.

In a recent project funded by FlexTech, a SEMI Technology Community, Goleta, Calif.-based ACI Materials developed alchemy conductive inks, optimized to enable the printing of finer pitches on flexible and 3D printed circuit structures than possible with conventional polymer thick film inks.

Focusing on applications that help assist movement in people with neuromotor disorders & aging muscle, Georgia Tech is developing a flexible system that uses sensory feedback through EMG to assess muscle and motor neuron health and augments strength through pneumatically actuated artificial muscle.

The hand has never been so sensitive. A sleek sensorized glove that monitors pressure to human hands – and objects they touch – for automotive, consumer packaging, robotics and medical applications just took a step closer to real-world use.

Electronics innovation is inching tantalizingly closer to the day when treating neurological disorders such as epilepsy and migraine could be as easy and convenient as dropping into a medical clinic for a minor medical procedure – brain surgery. What today is highly invasive surgery promises to be...

For the first time in its 20-year history, the FLEX Conference dedicated an entire session to the important and timely twin topics of environmental sustainability and power consumption of electronic devices. The event planning committee recognized the urgent need to increase the awareness of how...

New treatments for vascular disease. Optimized agricultural production. Beefed up performance of wearable devices and flexible displays. Four students with their sights set on making the world a better place won Innovators of the Future awards at the 20th Annual FLEX Conference in late February...