Design and Fabrication of Flexible Wearable Devices: a Review

Flexible electronic devices, as an emerging field of research, has received extensive attention in recent literature. Given, the progress, developments and growing demands in this field of research, wide-range research has been carried out on flexible materials in academic as well as industry. Due to the replacement of the conventional rigid devices with their flexible and stretchable counterparts, widespread high-quality research is needed to make this transition feasible. In particular reliability is of paramount importance in real-world applications and is needed to be addressed in the relevant literature. In the literature, mostly materials and methods have been reported. In this manuscript, we have summarized recent progress in the field of stretchable and flexible electronics. Key characterization parameters including reliability, hysteresis and linearity have been discussed. Nonetheless, for being adapted successfully into real-world applications, mass production techniques in this field of research has been presented.