General Pictures:

UW-Madison electrical and computer engineering

graduate student Hao-Chih Yuan holds a sample of
a semiconductor film on plastic.
New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented
by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers
promise to add sensing, computing and imaging
capability to an amazing array of materials. (July
18, 2006)
Scientists at Philips Research have developed a plastic RFID chip that is as thin as paper and no larger than a postage
stamp. (Philips)

Flexible foil polymer electronic devices manufactured by reel-to- reel technology. ORMOCER®s is adaptable to this
low-cost mass production technology, for example as dielectric etch stop, applied by screen printing (courtesy of
Fraunhofer IZM-M).
A foil of about 50 plastic programmable bit-pattern generators made by Dago de Leeuw's group at Philips Labs in the
Netherlands

The flexibility of plastic makes plastic electronics

suitable for applications that are unsuitable for silicon-
based electronics. The outset shows the detail of a
circuit.
Flexible 6-inch polyimide foil with a variety of components and electronic test circuits. The circuits still operate when
the foil is sharply bent. (Philips)
A typical printed plastic display circuit. The small blue regions in these images correspond to the organic
semiconducting material. Scientists say plastic electronic displays, such as television screens or electronic paper, will
become realities in the near future. (Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs)
Dr. Lynn Loo, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin, helped develop a method for
printing circuits onto plastics while working at Bell Labs in New Jersey in 2002. The process, called nanotransfer
printing, uses a pliable stamp of rubber or silicone with raised and recessed regions in the pattern of a circuit. (UT
College of Engineering Public Affairs )

Philips developed the world's thinnest plastic electronic display to date in January 2004. (Philips)
Philips developed the world's thinnest plastic electronic display to date in January 2004. The world's first flexible
electronic display was produced by Lucent Technologies and Massachusetts-based E Ink Corporation in 2000. (Philips)

Polymer electronics, Fraunhofer IZM, München

Low Cost printable manufacturing.