Flexible news focuses on developments in flexible electronics, including bendable displays, wearable sensors, and printed circuits. These innovations enable new form factors and applications in healthcare, consumer devices, and industrial monitoring. Advances in materials, manufacturing techniques, and integration improve durability and performance. For Electronics Weekly readers, flexible electronics updates provide insights into design challenges, emerging technologies, and market potential shaping next-generation adaptable electronics products.
Researchers at Virginia Tech have combined liquid metal and a heat-activated adhesive to create an electrically conductive patch that bonds to fabric when heated with a hot iron. “E-textiles and wearable electronics can enable diverse applications from health care and environmental monitoring to robotics and human-machine interfaces,” said Virginia Tech engineer Michael Bartlett. “Our work advances this by creating iron-on ...
Hirose has announced a two-piece flexi-to-PCB connector aimed at automotive applications. Called TB4 , it can withstand up to 125°C “which satisfies automotive requirements that allow the connector to be placed near engine compartments”, said the company, adding: “TB4 connectors are USCAR-2 compliant.” -40°C is the other end of the operating range, connection pitch is 1mm, and the mated height ...
This event is the global home of the additive, sustainable, hybrid and 3D electronics. Additive – Sustainable – Flexible – Printed – R2R – Hybrid – Soft – 3D – Structural – InMold – Textiles – Stretchable – Wearable Electronics The curated program is a mixture of industrial as well as applied research contributions, covering all the cutting-edge technological innovations, ...
The event for additive, sustainable, flexible, hybrid, wearable, structural and 3D electronics, The Future of Electronics Reshaped, will take place in Berlin, Germany on 23 and 24 October. The two-day event will comprise three parallel tracks and speakers from Forvia, European Space Agency, Meta, Decathlon, Airbus, Air Force Research Laboratories, Fuji, Datwyler, Motherson Innovations, Würth Elektronik, Avery Dennison, LPKF, Marquardt, ...
4mm diameter elastomer fibres are a promising substrate for electronics in clothing, according to Nottingham Trent University, which is investigating washable stretchable medical wearables. To make the electronic fibre, a long thin flexible PCB is helically wound along, and bonded to, the elastomer core, with its components facing inwards. “The basic idea has been around for centuries – it’s the ...
Additive, sustainable, flexible, wearable and 3D technologies discussed in a two day event at the Ballroom, Campus Center, UMass. The curated agenda and programme includes a tabletop exhibition and boasts innovators and material suppliers, equipment makers, manufacturers and end users.
A two-day event for additive, sustainable, flexible, hybrid, wearable, structural and 3D electronics. A curated agenda and masterclass programme with 78 booths for innovators and material suppliers to equipment makers, manufacturers and end users.
Key areas where flexible electronics are having a commercial impact are examined by Liam Critchley, who finds smaller companies are carving their own industry niches. The growth of advanced fabrication methods, small-scale nanomaterials and the ability to embed flexible circuitry and components into polymeric hosts have given rise to flexible electronics with advanced functionalities. This has become a popular way ...
Hirose has designed a miniature hybrid flexible printed circuit (FPC) to board connector family called BK22 that can handle signals and power totalling 100W – for USB fast-charging, for example. By “using an FPC to connect the USB to the PCB, the USB can be placed anywhere within the design of the end-product”, according to the company. “BK22 suppresses heat ...
An intelligent patch for cardiac monitoring is amongst research projects built on flexible and stretchable PCBs from Würth Elektronik. There are two cardiac monitors, a mini version with three electrodes for short-term monitoring, and one with six electrodes for longer periods. “A completely new approach to integration was developed in this work,” according to Wurth. “It was based on a stretchable ...
