Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Physics of Flexible Electronics
3. Semiconductor Basics
Part II: Materials
4. Flexible Silicon
5. Organic Electronic Materials
6. Metal Oxide Semiconductors
7. III-V Semiconductors
8. Nanostructured Materials
Part III: Integration Strategies
9. Substrates, Transfer, and Bonding
10. Barriers, Insulators, and Packaging
11. Flexible Printed Circuit Boards
12. Printed Electronics
Part IV: Applications
13. Flexible Processors
14. Flexible Memory
15. Flexible Displays
16. Flexible Energy Generation and Storage Devices
17. Flexible Sensors and Actuators
Part V: The Road Ahead
18. Stretchable Electronics
19. Reliability and Future Outlook
Biography
Aftab is currently an Assistant Professor at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad and the Principal Investigator of the PATRIoT Lab. Aftab earned his Bachelor’s degree from IIT Roorkee in 2009, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. from KAUST in 2016. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University in 2017-2018. Aftab has more than nine years of experience working with device fabrication, thin film characterization and device testing, along with sensor applications in IoT and related areas. His research focus is flexible and stretchable electronics and their applications in various IoT domains such as healthcare, mobility and smart cities. He has more than 80 scientific publications, holds four granted US patents, along with six others in various stages of filing. He is a member of the Executive Committee (ExeCom) of IEEE CAS/EDS joint chapter in Hyderabad and an Associate Editor (Flexible Electronics) at Frontiers of Electronics journal.
