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(Invited) Printed Flexible Sensor-Integrated Wearable Healthcare Patch

Monday, 14 May 2018: 15:00
Room 212 (Washington State Convention Center)
K. Takei (Osaka Prefecture University)
Wearable healthcare device allows us to monitor continuous daily health conditions if multiple sensors to detect physical and chemical information from a body can be integrated on a flexible sheet. Simultaneous detections of a variety of health conditions from body during daily life are most likely only realized by attaching the devices directly onto skin. By considering hygiene concerns for the direct attachment, the device should be disposable like a bandage or contact lenses. To spread this concept to many users widely, the device needs to be low cost due to that reason. To realize both multi-functionality and low cost process on a macroscale film, printing techniques to form active materials are promising as a next class of electronics. In fact, recently, many printed flexible sensors and transistors have been reported by using inorganic and/or organic materials. As the one of approaches, in this talk, a printed flexible multi-functional healthcare patch will be introduced. Furthermore, the fundamental properties of each sensor such as skin temperature, motion, and electrocardiogram signal sensors will be discussed. Although there are still a lot of challenges to realize the wearable healthcare patch, this progress may be able to help the progress on this field in near future.