Intelligent products and self-control devices are some of the many applications that become possible by this technology. When we think that everything is invented and there is no possibility to innovate, we are surprised printed electronics as an unexplored field with multiple possibilities.
The technology is evolving day by day in search of greater interaction between machines and people. In this quest to increase opportunities and reduce the space of electronic devices, printed electronics emerges, capable of reducing to a minimum space for the placement of electronic devices.
Basis for printed electronics:
The manufacturing process consists basically in print on diverse media: virtually any media that is valid on the technique can be applied serigraphy or graphic arts including textiles and plastics, electronic circuits, both tracks as passive and active components, which activate and control various mechanisms, using techniques of graphic arts, with the particularity of using conductive inks, conductive or semi-other qualities electrical.
Development of the idea:
This technology is not yet well advanced that it is up wit a world of possibilities to develop it. It is possible to print items such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors that is, all those electronic components found in conventional circuits, but reducing its physical composition, the ink applied with varying degrees of conductivity, which provides the necessary features inherent to the component, resistance, storage capacity of freight.
Cost reduction in manufacturing process:
The manufacturing cost is greatly reduced because once you have the engineering design provided by only printing it in series on the same medium chosen thus reducing manufacturing time and costs of production process. What’s important and what really has value is by design engineering, in which creativity and contribution of new ideas is the basis for the successful development of this innovative technology.
Current developments through printed electronics:
You can cite a number of examples of printed electronics which is open and give an idea of the wide range of possibilities are generated. You are making autonomous small voltage batteries to generate a momentary pulse, no need for batteries, for example with application to remote controls. This is possible by applying different levels of ink on a support, so we make a small coil that acts as a generator, so that clicking on it will produce the electrical signal.
It also displays that are being produced are functional to act on them, showing information about the product you are. For example we could have a lot of information about food products we consume daily. Information such as date of manufacture, expiry date, weight, cooking method, price, and any other relevant information.
Future development possibilities:
Any electrical device is capable of being printed electronics improved by both increasing the choices and improve them, and reducing space required for disposal of electronics. Control of individualized consumption of various household appliances could be developed so that the user has consumer information for each device connected to the grid, and thus improve the efficiency of homes.
You could also control the operation of the security of vehicles, and their consumption in terms of how we use it. The above are just some ideas, bottom line is that there are infinite possibilities for development from this technology.
