CMOS technology: a critical enabler for free-form electronics-based killer applications
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Conference PaperKAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionElectrical Engineering Program
Materials Science and Engineering Program
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2016-05-17Permanent link to this record
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Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology offers batch manufacturability by ultra-large-scaleintegration (ULSI) of high performance electronics with a performance/cost advantage and profound reliability. However, as of today their focus has been on rigid and bulky thin film based materials. Their applications have been limited to computation, communication, display and vehicular electronics. With the upcoming surge of Internet of Everything, we have critical opportunity to expand the world of electronics by bridging between CMOS technology and free form electronics which can be used as wearable, implantable and embedded form. The asymmetry of shape and softness of surface (skins) in natural living objects including human, other species, plants make them incompatible with the presently available uniformly shaped and rigidly structured today’s CMOS electronics. But if we can break this barrier then we can use the physically free form electronics for applications like plant monitoring for expansion of agricultural productivity and quality, we can find monitoring and treatment focused consumer healthcare electronics – and many more creative applications. In our view, the fundamental challenge is to engage the mass users to materialize their creative ideas. Present form of electronics are too complex to understand, to work with and to use. By deploying game changing additive manufacturing, low-cost raw materials, transfer printing along with CMOS technology, we can potentially stick high quality CMOS electronics on any existing objects and embed such electronics into any future objects that will be made. The end goal is to make them smart to augment the quality of our life. We use a particular example on implantable electronics (brain machine interface) and its integration strategy enabled by CMOS device design and technology run path. © (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.Citation
Muhammad M. Hussain ; Aftab M. Hussain and Amir Hanna " CMOS technology: a critical enabler for free-form electronics-based killer applications ", Proc. SPIE 9836, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications VIII, 983617 (May 17, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2222972; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2222972Publisher
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical EngConference/Event name
Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications VIIIae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1117/12.2222972