Flexible electronics | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Flexible electronics (17.BM117B)

Native organizations units: Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Biomedical Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Electronics
ECTS	4

Acquiring theoretical and practical knowledge in the filed of printed-flexible electronics in manufacturing of mechanically flexible sensors, stimulators and other components and devices in medicine.

- an ability to design and and manufacture of flexible blood pressure sensors - an ability to design and manufacture of prototypes of implantable ocular pressure sensors - an ability to design and manufacture of flexible stimulators for application in EMG - an ability to design and manufacture of RFID for telemetry application in medicine

Manufacturing methods for flexible electronic components and devices (ink-jet printing, screen printing, flexo-printing, etc.). Flexible transistors and light emitting diodes. Flexible displays. Flexible solar cells. Flexible sensors and scanners. Implantable LC blood pressure sensors. Implantable ocular pressure sensors. Fleixble (polymeric) stimulators. Flexible RFID tags and their applications in medical telemetry. Smart textiles. Measuring ECG using embedded electrodes in textile. Moisture sensors embedded in textile (blankets, etc.). Realization and application of flexible force sensitive resistors (FSR).

Lecture. Auditory exercises. Laboratory exercises. Consultation.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Ruth Shinar, Joseph Shinar	Organic Electronics in Sensors and Biotechnology	2009	McGRAW-HILL	English
Joseph Fjelstad	Flexible Circuit Technology	2007	BR Publishing	English