Sentences with phrase «thin flexible devices»

For indoor applications, thin flexible devices are particularly interesting because they can be seamlessy integrated on surfaces, even curved ones, although fabrication is complicated by having to maintain processing temperatures below 150 C to avoid deformation of plastic substrates.

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The device consists of a plastic pouch or bag to hold breast milk or formula attached to thin, flexible tubes that run down each breast to the nipple.

The thin profile and minimal energy requirements of devices could also make it useful in flexible displays or as a security measure on credit cards.

And they are already turning some of them into thin, flexible, speedy electronic and optical devices that they hope will form the backbone of industries of the future.

«We already know how to put electronics on the skin in a natural manner — here our challenge was dealing with fluid flow and the collection, storage and analysis of sweat in a thin, soft and flexible device,» said Huang, who worked on the device's design and optimization.

«So we could use it in the future by taking traditional speakers, which are big, bulky and use a lot of power, and replacing them with this very flexible, thin, small device.»

A paper - thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a loudspeaker and microphone as well, nanotechnology researchers report in the May 16 edition of Nature Communications.

These ultra-thin carbon filaments have high mobility, high transparency and electric conductivity, making them ideal for performing electronic tasks and making flexible electronic devices like thin film transistors, the on - off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.

«We are just beginning to realize all of the innovative ways one can use this atomically thin and flexible building block to make new materials and devices.»

Organic electronic devices such as OLEDs and organic solar cells use thin films of organic molecules for the electrically active materials, making flexible and low - cost devices possible.

Using these advances, solar panels can be thinner, lighter, cheaper, more flexible and fundamentally more efficient than current devices on the market.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to transfer thin semiconductor films, which are only one atom thick, onto arbitrary substrates, paving the way for flexible computing or photonic devices.

The findings, which have been reported in Nature Communications, reveal that the h - BN layers form the strongest thin insulator available globally and the unique qualities of the material could be used to create flexible and almost unbreakable smart devices, as well as scratch - proof paint for cars.

«New way to move atomically thin semiconductors for use in flexible devices.»

«The ultimate goal is to use these atomic - layer semiconducting thin films to create devices that are extremely flexible, but to do that we need to transfer the thin films from the substrate we used to make it to a flexible substrate,» says Cao, who is senior author of a paper on the new transfer technique.

«The materials are so thin and flexible that the device can be made transparent and can conform to curved surfaces,» said Der - Hsien Lien, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and a co-first author along with Matin Amani and Sujay Desai, both doctoral students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Berkeley.

As such, the work shows that graphene (combined with other flexible 2D materials) is not just limited to simple electronic displays, but could be exploited to create light emitting devices that are not only incredibly thin, but flexible, semi-transparent, and intrinsically bright.

Researchers from South Korea have developed a thin, highly - flexible film that could enable a new generation of wearable devices that wrap around your finger or wrist.

Both are thin and flexible T - shaped devices about half the height of a sugar packet that are inserted directly into the uterus for the long - term prevention of pregnancy.

This is not the first flexible ePaper display Sony's showcased, the company prototyping a while ago 4.8 - inch e-paper device with organic TFTs (thin - film transistors) that use the «PXX,» an organic semiconductor material stable to oxygen, moisture and light.

Unlike typical glass silicon displays, the flexible plastic substrates used in the reader allow the device to be both thinner, lighter and rugged.

Besides the beautiful designs, a flexible OLED has several advantages especially in mobile devices - the displays are lighter, thinner and more durable compared to glass based displays.

This reduced thickness enables thin, lightweight and conformable flexible electronic devices.

But since its flexible nature mostly comes as a result of it being so thin, it also has the potential to slim down any device it's used in.

The device has a 9.5 - cm (3.74 - inch) thin film flexible E-Ink display, underneath which is a flexible printed circuit incorporating resistive bend sensors.

It uses a large, flexible electronic paper display based on technology from E Ink (the same company that makes the displays for Amazon.com's Kindle and Sony's Reader), but the device overall is remarkably thin and light.

This includes using a smaller battery (better battery life can be easily achieved by Apollo Lake's great overall power); PMIC for cheaper and better power delivery option; solder down Wi - Fi through Intel 802.11 ac Wi - Fi support; solder down eMMC flash storage or M. 2 NAND chips instead of SSDs or HDDs; flexible memory options (LPDDR3 & LPDDR4 options and DDR3L memory solder down option); and MIPI camera that's consistent with devices created with thinner designs.

So like most other Samsung devices the back of the Galaxy Alpha is plastic — and relatively thin, flexible plastic at that.

However, many earlier reports indicate that the function of flexible displays may have never been to usher in flexible devices, but rather to allow for much thinner and lighter, unbreakable devices, with more room for larger batteries and other updated components.

AMOLED displays, as per a recent report from IHS Markit, will witness a rise in 2017 owing to the introduction of devices with flexible display and wearables, while the usage of LCD Thin Film Transistor (TFT) displays will decline.