Electronics on Paper

Paper Power: Flexible, foldable arrays of solar cells can be built on a paper substrate using vapor deposition. The solar array pictured here incorporates five layers and uses organic photovoltaic materials to convert light into electricity with roughly 1 percent efficiency. The displays and microfluidic systems I’ve described are far from the only applications being explored. My group and others, for example, are actively building light-emitting devices on paper to make luminous displays. Others are investigating novel ways to construct flexible RF antennas attached to curvilinear surfaces that boost their performance. Of course, regardless of what we choose to build, paper electronics will always be limited unless we can find a way to deliver power to the devices in a way that’s just as mobile, thin, lightweight, and flexible as paper itself. What we’d really like to do ...

Full article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/electro...

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