Title :
Flexible and stretchable electronics for wearable healthcare
Author :
van den Brand, Jeroen ; de Kok, Margreet ; Sridhar, Arvind ; Cauwe, Maarten ; Verplancke, Rik ; Bossuyt, Frederick ; de Baets, Johan ; Vanfleteren, Jan
Author_Institution :
Holst Centre / TNO, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
Measuring the quality of human health and well-being is one of the key growth areas in our society. Preferably, these measurements are done as unobtrusive as possible. These sensoric devices are then to be integrated directly on the human body as a patch or integrated into garments. This requires the devices to be very thin, flexible and sometimes even stretchable. An overview will be given of recent technology developments in this domain and concrete application examples will be shown.
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; flexible electronics; patient monitoring; flexible electronics; garment integration; human body; human health quality measurement; sensoric device; stretchable electronics; wearable healthcare; Ink; Integrated circuit interconnections; Microcontrollers; Polyimides; Positron emission tomography; Silicon; Thermal stability; flexible electronics; stretchable electronics;
Conference_Titel :
Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC), 2014 44th European
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4378-4
DOI :
10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948796
