Flexible Electronics

How does Exponent's 50+ years of experience working with flexible electronics bring you breakthrough insights?

Popularized by United States space program demand in the 1960s, flexible substrates and flexible devices — now capable of providing power in the 1- to 50-kW range — are highly sought-after technology due to their lightweight, bendable, conformable, and rugged characteristics. Exponent's electrical and electronics engineers have worked extensively in the organic and silicon-based flexible electronics field and have broad knowledge of constituent chemistry and materials and manufacturing and processing techniques, including:

• Roll- to-roll processing

• Physical vapor deposition

• Plasma deposition

Our team also has expertise in optical design and characterization methods and semiconductor devices and circuits used in flexible electronics, including:

• Thin-film transistors

• Organic thin-film transistors

• Active-matrix organic light-emitting devices

• Solid-state lighting: organic light emitting diodes

• Sensor arrays

• Solar cells

• Radiofrequency identification tags