Flexible Electronics
Work Package 9
The aim of our Work Package is to demonstrate the viability of graphene and layered materials for applications in flexible electronics. We do this by developing functional prototypes that perform better and are more reliable than current state-ofthe-art devices, or provide advantages in terms of consumer appeal, business appeal or environmental friendliness.
We carry out our research and development on graphene flakes for printed electronics, and on grown and transferred graphene and layered materials for high-performance flexible devices.
Over the past few years, we have developed a number of new sensors, prototype wearable autonomous devices for health monitoring, interactive printed electronic products based on paper and transparent electrodes to be used in the automotive industry.
Getting new technology on the market
Flexible electronics are electronic circuits on flexible, stretchable or conformable substrates. These can enable new and unconventional products like smart textiles, interactive skin patches and lightweight large-area electronics.
The main applications are in the automotive, consumer electronics, packaging and advertising, and pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. In the coming years, more and more flexible, lightweight and mobile products will hit the market.
Graphene and layered materials have unique and valuable properties: in particular, mechanical robustness, conformability, sustainability, low-toxicity and low-cost large-area production. Flexible electronics are a great way to take advantage of these properties. Designing new devices based on graphene and layered materials could allow us to get new products from the laboratory to industrial-scale commercial production.
Latest Articles
Layered materials grant sight to electronic chips
TAILSPIN engineers switchable graphene nanoribbons
Researchers from FLAG-ERA’s TAILSPIN project ‘take a dip’ in the quantum world and push ahead with low-power transistors based on semiconducting graphene nanoribbons
Wafer scale production of graphene based photonic devices
Graphene Flagship researchers have devised a wafer-scale fabrication method that paves the way to the next generation of telecom and datacom devices.
Developing flexible and printable electronics on paper with graphene and layered materials
An interview with Gianluca Fiori, Deputy Leader of the Graphene Flagship’s Electronic Devices Work Package
Graphene Flagship hosts Innovation Workshop Electronics event
The half-day-long online event connected industrial players in the field of electronics and encouraged new collaborations using graphene
Graphene Flagship launches first European EPL
Funded by the European Commission, this €20 million project will enable large volume production of electronic devices based on two-dimensional materials.
