Printed Plastic Electronics and Paperlike Displays

This is an invited Feature Article for Journal of Polymer Sciences: Part A, Polymer Chemistry. Plastic electronic materials and high-resolution printing methods may be important technologies for new classes of consumer electronic devices that are lightweight, mechanically flexible and bendable, and that can cover large areas at low cost. This article summarizes some of our recent work in this area. It focuses on the materials and patterning techniques that we used to produce plastic active-matrix backplane circuits for a type of paperlike display.