Polytronics Technology

Current trends in the development of electronics systems show that the provision of thin flexible components and semiconductors plays a decisive role in the steadily progressing development of highly integrated systems. With invention of transistors in early half of nineteenth century, field of electronics had undergone innumerable changes that have had tremendous impact on life of common man. Be it education, entertainment or healthcare, there is possibly no field where electronics had not made an impact. Entire concept of electronics is based on study of materials called semi-conductors. Current trends in the development of electronics systems show that the provision of thin flexible components and semiconductors plays a decisive role in the steadily progressing development of highly integrated systems. A new generation of thin flexible electronic systems arises. Plastic has been regarded as "insulators" for many years, and is primarily used to protect copper wires. Emerging modern polytronics technology shifts the perspective of people as "Microelectronics" about conducting polymers. In combination with silicone, microelectronics technology is sufficiently flexible to make Rolling circuits that use less power, which can be manufactured at a cost that is used to manufacture semiconductor chips above all else. This technology can be used in several areas where there is much research going on in the manufacture of microelectronic components on plastic substrates which allows us to manufacture gadgets by simply printing method. Freedom of design, compact portable products, cost-effective production and assembly, environment friendly materials, software based printed ICs, flexible polymer transistors and thin flexible silicon ICs - there are unquestionable advantages of flexible electronics. Microsystems incorporating fluidic, mechanical, optical and electrical components are under research and development at present. A new word, "polytronics" (polymer+electronics) has appeared in electronic vocabulary as a short name of this quickly developed technology.

This book aims to present an overview of these technologies. This technology opens further possibilities to integrate thin silicon circuits and plastic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structures in the same fabrication and process environment. Microsystems incorporating fluidic, mechanical, optical, and electrical components are under research and development at present. Key applications scenarios for the polymer electronics predict fully applicable displays, embedded MEMS, labels for broad-band wireless communication, polymer batteries, and photovoltaic cells. Reliability testing of polytronics components has found much attention recently, because of the growing practical importance of polytronics. There has been a growing need for a better knowledge of local materials parameters, local deformation as well stress fields. Interface crack and delamination phenomena have also moved to the focus of reliability estimations for polytronics.