Printed Electronics is Pivotal to the Future of Mobile Phones

By Dr. Peter Harrop
IDTechEx

Printed electronics is a term that covers printed and potentially printed electronics and electrics. It is the basis of an emerging $300 billion business embracing transistors, memory, displays, solar cells, batteries, sensors, lasers, and much more. This new electronics will appear as adhesive tape, wallpaper, billboards, labels, skin patches, smart packaging, and books because it will be foldable, conformal, wide area, ultra low cost, edible, rollable, transparent and biodegradable as needed. Yes, there are transparent transistors, batteries, solar cells and more on the way and Kodak has recently patented edible RFID on medicine. And it will be pivotal to the future of mobile phones.