Handbook of Flexible Organic Electronics

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Microfluidic devices using flexible organic electronic materials

Z.G. Wu     Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract

Being deformed without any discontinuities, microfluidics-based electronic devices demonstrate great mechanical flexibility. This chapter systematically reviews the development of microfluidics-based electronic devices with examples. In addition, discussions and perspectives on future development are included.

Keywords

Electronic devices; Flexible electronics; Microfluidic electronics; Stretchable electronics

16.1. Introduction

In the past few decades, we have been witnessing the rapid development of micro (nano)-electronics (Cavin, Lugli, & Zhirnov, 2012). Although researchers have predicted that Moore's law will be invalidated, ...