System integration for plastic electronics using room temperature ultrasonic welding
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Author(s)
Dou, Guangbin
Holmes, Andrew S
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Plastic electronics is attracting increasing attention for both high‐end applications such as flexible OLED displays in mobile phones and low‐cost items such as plastic RFID tags for product labelling and tracking. However, there are numerous technological challenges, not the least of which is to develop robust and reliable packaging methods. Unfortunately, most of the established packaging technologies used in conventional silicon electronics are not transferable to plastic electronics due to the high process temperatures involved. We have explored the use of room temperature ultrasonic welding for the realization of multilayer plastic electronic circuits, identifying two distinct modes of ultrasonic welding that can form combined electrical and mechanical connections between adjacent low‐temperature polymer films with either aluminum or printed silver metallisation. We have fabricated fully functional multilayer wireless charging coils and RFID tags to demonstrate the potential of this new system integration approach.
Date Issued
2020-02-28
Date Acceptance
2020-01-14
Citation
Advanced Engineering Materials, 2020, 22 (5), pp.1-6
ISSN
1438-1656
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
1
End Page
6
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Engineering Materials
Volume
22
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Imperial College London. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Identifier
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adem.201901309
Grant Number
RG67691
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Materials Science
flexible printed electronics
hybrid plastic electronics
plastic electronics
system integrations
ultrasonic welding
PATH
0912 Materials Engineering
Materials
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
adem.201901309
Date Publish Online
2020-01-30