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Printed and Flexible Electronics – Status, Innovations and Prospects: IDTechEx

Conductive inks underpin the technology, with dozens of companies developing inks with a range of compositions and attributes.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

What do electronic skin patches, thin-film flexible photovoltaics and automotive interior consoles have in common? All are produced using printed & flexible electronics, an alternative approach to conventional printed circuit boards that combines additive manufacturing with flexible substrates. Bringing benefits such as rapid prototyping, improved sustainability, scope for form factor differentiation and even stretchability, printed & flexible electronics is gaining traction across an...

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