Flexibility and stretchability of electronics are crucial for next generation electronic devices that involve skin contact sensing and therapeutic actuation. This handbook provides a complete entrée to the field, from solid-state physics to materials chemistry, processing, devices, performance, and reliability testing, and integrated systems development. This work shows how microelectronics, signal processing, and wireless communications in the same circuitry are impacting electronics, healthcare, and energy applications.
Key Features:
- Covers the fundamentals to device applications, including solid-state and mechanics, chemistry, materials science, characterization techniques, and fabrication;
- Offers a comprehensive base of knowledge for moving forward in this field, from foundational research to technology development;
- Focuses on processing, characterization, and circuits and systems integration for device applications;
- Addresses the basic physical properties and mechanics, as well as the nuts and bolts of reliability and performance analysis;
- Discusses various technology applications, from printed electronics to logic and memory devices, sensors, actuators, displays, and energy storage and harvesting.
This handbook will serve as the one-stop knowledge base for readership who are interested in flexible and stretchable electronics.
About the Author: Prof. Muhammad Mustafa Hussain received his BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2000. Then he completed
MSc in Electrical Engineering from University of South California, Los Angeles, CA, in 2002.
Next he earned another MSc and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Texas at Austin, in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Currently, he is a professor of Electrical Engineering
at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He was
recently a visiting professor in EECS of University of California, Berkeley. Before joining KAUST, Prof.
Hussain was a program manager of Emerging Technology Program in SEMATECH, Inc. Austin, Texas.
A regular panelist of US NSF grants reviewing committees, he is the fellow of American Physical Society
(APS), Institute of Physics, UK, and Institute of Nanotechnology, UK, IEEE Electron Devices Society
Distinguished Lecturer, editor-in-chief of Applied Nanoscience (Springer-Nature), editor of IEEE
Transactions on Electron Devices, and an IEEE Senior Member. He has served as first or corresponding
author in 90% of his 2300+ research papers (including 27 invited reviews, 32 cover articles, and
150 journal papers). He has more than 60 issued and pending US patents. His students are serving as
faculty and researchers in MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Caltech, Harvard, UCLA, Yale, Purdue, TSMC,
Intel Corporation, KACST, KFUPM, KAU, and DOW Chemicals. Scientific American has listed his
research as one of the Top 10 World Changing Ideas of 2014. Applied Physics Letters selected his paper as
one of the Top Feature Articles of 2015. He and his students have received 39 research awards including
IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Individual Achievement Award 2016, World Technology Award Finalist in
Health and Medicine 2016, TEDx 2017, Outstanding Young Texas Exes Award 2015 (UT Austin Alumni
Award), US National Academies' Arab-American Frontiers of Sensors 2015, 2016, DOW Chemical
Sustainability Challenge Award 2012, etc. His research has been highlighted extensively in international
media like in Washington Post, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), IEEE Spectrum, etc. His research interest is to
expand the horizon of CMOS electronics and technology for futuristic applications.
Dr. Nazek El-Atab received her BSc degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from
the Rafik Hariri University, Lebanon, in 2012, her MSc degree in Microsystems Engineering from the
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 2014, and her PhD degree in
Interdisciplinary Engineering from the Masdar Institute in 2017. Currently, she is a post-doctoral
research fellow with Professor Muhammad Mustafa Hussain at the MMH labs at KAUST. Her current
research focuses on the design and fabrication of futuristic electronics.
She has received several awards for her research, including the 2015 For Women in Science Middle
East Fellowship by L'Oreal-UNESCO, Best Paper Award in the Micro/Nano-systems section at the
UAEGSRC 2016 conference, the 2016 IEEE Nanotechnology Student Travel Award in Japan, the 2017
International Rising Talents Award by L'Oreal-UNESCO, the 2018 "Rafik Hariri University" Alumni
Award, and was portrayed in the 2019 "Remarkable Women in Technology" by UNESCO. She has published
over 30 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings and
2 book chapters, and has 4 pending US patents. She has served as a Jury member for the 2017 For Women
in Science Middle East Fellowship by L'Oreal-UNESCO and a member of the Panel of Experts for the
2019 For Women in Science Awards by L'Oreal-UNESCO. Her research has been highlighted extensively
in international media including The National, America's Navy, Office of Naval Research, Emirates News
Agency, Skynews Arabia TV, Khaleej Times, Monte Carlo Paris, the Health Medicine Network, etc.
