Ultraflexible and stretchable organic thin-film electronics for biomedical applications

Takao Someya and Tomoyuki Yokota
University of Tokyo


Abstract

Mechanically ultraflexible and stretchable devices are expected to open new possibilities in fields of biomedical applications as well as wearable electronics. Especially, conformability, ruggedness, lightweight, biocompatibility, and large-area are all important to create new electronic applications that can be directly mounted on the surface of human skins and/or even inside the body. From this viewpoint, ultraflexible organic thin-film devices, such as organic photovoltaic cells, organic light-emitting diodes, and organic thin-film transistors integrated circuits, have attracted much attention recently. In this talk, we report our recent progress of ultraflexible organic thin-film devices that are manufactured on ultrathin plastic film with the thickness of 1 μm. We will also describe their emerging applications, remaining issues and future prospects.