Emerging Materials
Water-based and biocompatible 2D material based inks for printed electronics
Solution processing of 2D materials [1] allows simple and low-cost techniques, such as ink-jet printing, to be used for fabrication of heterostructure-based devices of arbitrary complexity. However, the success of this technology is determined by the nature and quality of the inks used.
Advanced manufacturing of printed and flexible electronics
Towards more sustainable flexible, printable sensors and systems
There is great push to transfer from linear towards circular economy and achieve climate neutral societies during coming decades. Electronics/ICT is one of the priority sectors and need to decrease environmental footprint of electronics is important.
TI²: Tactile Iontronic Intelligence for Wearable Healthcare
Personalized medicine has become extremely popular subjects to explore in both industries and academia recently, in which a variety of wearable and flexible electronic technologies have been emerged to facilitate such transformative changes.
Sensor Device Architectures and Smart Systems
Printable Tactile Sensors for Soft Electronics and Soft Robotics
Tactile sensors are widely used in the field of soft electronics and soft robotics. Fabrication of the tactile sensors using two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional printing (3D) is becoming attractive due to the ability to prepare complex structures through computer aided designs and multimaterial co-deposition.
Low power electronics for autonomous sensors
High-fidelity and Large-area Flexible Hybrid Sensing System
Combining printed flexible electronics (FE) with high performance silicon chips, known as flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), can bring together flexible form factors, low-cost fabrications and high computational capabilities, thus enabling more innovations for wearable, artificial skins and IoT applications.
Bio- and wearable electronics
Wearable Sweat Sensors - Towards big data for human health
Wearable sensor technologies play a significant role in realizing personalized medicine through continuously monitoring an individual’s health state. To this end, human sweat is an excellent candidate for non-invasive monitoring as it contains physiologically rich information.
Energy Harvesting & Storage
Flexible Battery: Power Solution for Flexible Electronics
Our research focuses on development of flexible energy storage/conversion devices, including supercapacitors, batteries and metal air batteries.
Hybrid Systems on Foil
TFT Foundry MPG for Display and Sensor Development – Design, Prototype material, Equipment
With the fast growth of demand for IOT and smart sensors, traditional silicon foundries show disadvantages in research cost and mass production. Multi-Project-Glass (MPG) utilizing mature TFT display Foundry capacity would be able to provide a cost-effective route to support research and development.
Applied mechanics, reliability and modelling
Printed Sensors for Real-Time, High-Spatial Resolution Analysis of Soil and Plant Conditions
Understanding soil and plant properties in real-time and at high-spatial resolution is critical for optimizing agricultural input use (such as irrigation water and fertilizer) as well as for general assessment of soil and plant health.
Emerging technologies
Bio-inspired electronic eye and bio-integrated drug delivery device
Despite recent progresses, significant challenges still exist in developing a miniaturized and lightweight type of artificial vision that features wide field-of-view (FoV), high contrast, and low noise.
SOFT ELECTRONICS FOR HUMAN-CENTERED ROBOTICS
Internet of things (IoT), robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) hold the key to Industry 4.0. To stay relevant in the AI age, humans must collaborate and/or even merge with electronics, machines and robots to realize internet of health (IoH), augmented reality (AR), as well as augmented human capabilities.
