Pub Date : 2025-11-18DOI: 10.1038/s41528-025-00490-9
Hyeongseok Choi, Jungeun Lee, Seungmoon Choi, Taeyeong Kim, Unyong Jeong
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Pub Date : 2025-11-11DOI: 10.1038/s41528-025-00488-3
Youngkwang Shin, Young Jin Jo, Yeong-sinn Ye, Kyungmin Kim, Sungbin Choi, Young Gil Kim, Tae-il Kim
{"title":"Fiber-based organic electrochemical transistors for re-shaping bioelectronics: integration on and in textiles","authors":"Youngkwang Shin, Young Jin Jo, Yeong-sinn Ye, Kyungmin Kim, Sungbin Choi, Young Gil Kim, Tae-il Kim","doi":"10.1038/s41528-025-00488-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-025-00488-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48528,"journal":{"name":"npj Flexible Electronics","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145484838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1038/s41528-025-00481-w
Manuel A. Triana, Yanfang Feng, Shruti Jayaprakash Saiji, Yiteng Tang, Raymond J. Lanzafame, Natalie Kay Eidenschink, Shakir Khan, Yajie Dong, Tayyaba Hasan
{"title":"Advancing flexible quantum dot light-emitting diode technology for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy","authors":"Manuel A. Triana, Yanfang Feng, Shruti Jayaprakash Saiji, Yiteng Tang, Raymond J. Lanzafame, Natalie Kay Eidenschink, Shakir Khan, Yajie Dong, Tayyaba Hasan","doi":"10.1038/s41528-025-00481-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-025-00481-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48528,"journal":{"name":"npj Flexible Electronics","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145447501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-13DOI: 10.1038/s41528-025-00478-5
Martijn Timmermans,Kyle van Oosterhout,Marco Fattori,Paul van Neer,Pieter Harpe,Eugenio Cantatore
Ultrasound (US) imaging is a fundamental tool in healthcare for the diagnosis of diverse conditions. Wearable, flexible ultrasound patches could expand the scope of US imaging to continuous, at-home monitoring without professional intervention, but require scaling to large numbers of transducer elements. This poses challenges in interconnect density, power consumption, and data bandwidth. To improve interconnect density, we present the first integration of flexible ultrasound transducers with flexible a-IGZO thin-film transistor (TFT) multiplexing electronics. In the Si CMOS readout chip, a new circuit technique cuts front-end power, while a log-delta ADC compresses data efficiently. Our system achieves an 8× reduction in required front-end circuitry and a 42% decrease in front-end power. The data needed to describe the ultrasound image are reduced five-fold, decreasing data transmission power by the same factor. These advances bring the vision of wearable high-density, large-area ultrasound imaging patches for monitoring one step closer.
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