POLYTRONICS
PRESENTED BY
Y,AUNDEEP
REGNO:158H1A0480
DEPT OF ECE
contents
What is polytronics
Plastic electronics
Principle
Manufacturing techniques
Printing your circuits
Steps
Where its used
Advantages
Disadvantages
conclusion
WHAT IS POLYTRONICS…??
Polymer + electronics
Influence of plastic in electronics
Certain plastic(polymers) have conductive & light
emitting property
providing the basis of a new technology for flat–panel
displays with excellent visibility
PLASTIC ELECTRONICS
Plastics could be made to conduct through
doping(adding
impurities)
depending on their chemical structure plastics may exhibit
electrically conductive, semi-conductive or
insulating properties
Polymers such as polythiophenes,
oligothiophenes and
pentacene have conductive property
electronic behavior of these polymers is very
different from inorganic semiconductors such as
silicon or gallium arsenide
PRINCIPLE
Principle The water based droplets contain an organic conductor-POLY
(3,4- ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with a solution of polystyrene
sulphonic acid As the droplets dry they become a conducting layer and
form source and drain of a transistor. They are then coated with a layer of
semiconducting polymer (9, 9-dioctyl flourene-co-bithiophene) followed
by a dielectric layer of polyvinylphenol.Finally gate is printed, creating a
so called top gate transistor.
MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES
Printing polymer circuits is known as Polymer
Mechatronics or Flexonics
Developed by university of California in Berkeley
No need of “assemble and build” technique
PRINTING YOUR CIRCUITS
Polymer
mechatronics
or flexonics
The entire product
would come out of
the printer
Electronic
circuits
embedded in
the product
itself
STEPS…
FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS
»Talk and Trash« Cell Phone
ELECTRONIC PAPER
paper is made of a thin layer
(coating) of conductive synthetic
material
coating contains capsules filled
with oil, with floating black and
white pigment parts in it.
text and pictures are displayed by
electronic ink or e-Ink.
use plastic substrate and
electronics to make the display
flexible.
text or the image will remain on the
electronic paper, even when the
reader is switched off
electronic ink
Front plane
Electronic paper
electronics required to
backplane generate the pattern of
text and images
USED IN : Electronic price tags, Bus/Train station timetables,
Electronic billboards…
ADVANTAGE : handy, light size ,Inexpensive ,reusable ,portable…
PLASTIC BATTERIES
Developed by Hopkins university
Positive and negative electrodes are
thin, foil-like plastic sheets
Electrolyte is a polymer gel film
Does not contain hazardous chemicals
as in Ni-Cd cells
Can be recharged and reused a
number of times without loss of power
USED IN :military and space applications , small consumer devices
ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS
Artificial muscles Smart pills
Polymers which can be to bend, Implanted into the body
stretch, twist or contract under Have sensor, battery &EAP
the influence of electric charge valves
Have the potential to function as Sensor activated with chemical
artificial muscles change
delivered to specific tissues at
specific doses and times.
OLEDS
sandwiching organic thin films
between two conductors.
Emissive displays
Wider viewing angle(upto 160°)
Can be read even in bright
sunlight
Preferred choice for lighter, thinner
and flexible display screens
USED IN : televisions, laptop, cellular phones, digital video cameras,
DVD players, PDAs, car stereos
LEDs remain functionality even
under tight bending radius
ADVANTAGES
freedom in design
cheap foil substrates
light-weight
compact portable products
cost-effective assembly with reel-to-reel processing
environment-friendly
printing instead of lithography
Scale :printing can be done with almost unlimited length
DISADVANTAGES
Need low temperature processes
Substrates are not flat and have many defects
Plastics are highly permeable for water and oxygen and
offer little protection for electronic components
FUTURE
Rollable or foldable thin film
computers
Electronic newspaper which
continually updated
Fruit and vegetables labels
Invisible chips will one day be
integrated in paper, postage
stamps, bank notes etc with
intelligence
CONCLUSION
provide a cheap method for the fabrication of simple low-cost electronic products
Polymer materials offer a high degree of freedom and flexibility in the design of the
materials, devices and systems
Scarcity of semiconductors and power compels the new generation to move to
polytronics.
“THE IDEA OF POLYTRONICS IS NOT TO REPLACE SILICON TECHNOLOGY BUT TO DEVELOP
NEW APPLICATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH SILICON”
