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Plastic Electronics

This document provides an overview of plastic electronics. It discusses key topics such as plastic electronic materials, comparison with silicon materials, circuit printing processes like microcontact printing and gravure printing, organic light emitting diodes, applications, and advantages and disadvantages. The conclusion states that organic electronic devices are promising for next generation electronics due to their flexibility, low cost, and solution processability. Plastic electronics is a multidisciplinary area concerning fabrication of devices from organic molecules and easily processed materials.

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Plastic Electronics

This document provides an overview of plastic electronics. It discusses key topics such as plastic electronic materials, comparison with silicon materials, circuit printing processes like microcontact printing and gravure printing, organic light emitting diodes, applications, and advantages and disadvantages. The conclusion states that organic electronic devices are promising for next generation electronics due to their flexibility, low cost, and solution processability. Plastic electronics is a multidisciplinary area concerning fabrication of devices from organic molecules and easily processed materials.

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Plastic Electronic Materials
3 Comparison With Silcon And Plastic Materials
4 Circuit Printing Processes
5 Organic Light Emitting Diode
6 Applications
7 Advantages and Disadvantages
8 Conclusion

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Introduction

Introduction

Plastic electronics ,Organic electronics, or polymer electronics, is a branch of electronics.


Why Plastic Electronics ?
Using plastic injection molding drastically reduces the cost and increases the durability.
Plastic Electronics allows circuits to be produced at relatively low cost by printing electronic
materials onto any surface.

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Introduction

Flexible organic electronic circuits

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Introduction

What is plastic Electronics

Plastic electronics is a area that concerns the fabrication of electronic devices from organic
molecules and other easily processed materials.

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Plastic Electronic Materials

Plastic Electronic Materials

Organic Semiconductors
Small molecules and Polymers
Organic Conductors
Doped polymers and Organic metals
Organic dielectric
polypropylene, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl phenol, poly methyl methacrylate, and
polyethylene terephthalate
Organic light emitters
Small molecule emitters and Polymeric emitters
Substrate
PET,PEN,PI,Metal Foils,Polycarbonate,Copper Foils

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Comparison With Silcon And Plastic Materials

Silicon

Inorganic material
crystaline silicon wafer
Semicoductor
Photolithography and Chemical vapor deposition
High temperature
Rigid Inherently brittle
Not flexible
Manufacturing cost
Energy efficient
Higher electrical performance

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Comparison With Silcon And Plastic Materials

Plastic

Organic material
Low temperature processing
Semiconductor or Conductor
Flexible and Bendable electronics
Cost effective
Energy efficient
Environmental friendly

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Circuit Printing Processes

Printing Process

Printing Techniques are chosen based upon their


Suitability
Capability
Lateral resolution
Ink thickness
Surface uniformity
Some important printing methods are
Micro Contact Printing
Gravure Printing

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Circuit Printing Processes

Micro Contact Printing

Steps involved in Micro Contact Printing


1 Master
2 Prepolymer
3 Stamp
4 Ink pad / Ink solution
5 Substrate
6 self assembled monolayer (SAM)
7 Etching

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Circuit Printing Processes

Micro Contact Printing

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Circuit Printing Processes

Gravure Printing

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Organic Light Emitting Diode

Organic Display

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Organic Light Emitting Diode

Organic LED Display

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Applications

Applications
Organic LED Display
Organic Photovoltaic
Organic Sensors
Organic Actuators

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Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages

Flexibility
Low cost manufacturing
Low environmental impact
Tunable properties
Light weight
Biocompatibility
Energy efficiency

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Advantages and Disadvantages

Disadvantages

Stability issues
Relatively short lifespan
Complex synthesis and purification

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Conclusion

Conclusion

Organic electronic devices are known as the promising candidate for the next generation
electronics due to their intrinsic flexibility, low-cost and solution processability.
Plastic electronics is a multidisciplinary research area that concerns the fabrication of
electronic devices from organic molecules and other easily processed materials.

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Conclusion

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M. Schrodner,S. Sensfuss,H.-K. Roth,R.-I. Stohn,
Plastic electronics based on semiconducting polymers, First International IEEE
Conference on Polymers and Adhesives in Microelectronics and Photonics. Incorporating
POLY, PEP Adhesives in Electronics. Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8592) Year: 2011.
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Conclusion

Thank you...

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Conclusion

Questions ?

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