Hello Future! Printed Electronics as a Hands-On Experiment for Science Teaching

Lena Halbrügge¹, Amitabh Banerji^1, and Sven Rösler²

¹Didaktik der Chemie, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany

²Leuchtstoffwerk Breitungen GmbH, 98597 Breitungen, Germany

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Lena Halbrügge, Amitabh Banerji and Sven Rösler. Hello Future! Printed Electronics as a Hands-On Experiment for Science Teaching. World Journal of Chemical Education. 2021; 9(4):104-110. doi: 10.12691/WJCE-9-4-2

Abstract

Printed electronics is an emerging research field and is going to play a vital role in our everyday-life in the near future. Luminescent printed electronic devices can be very thin and flexible, which makes them feasible for new applications. Such EL-devices are already being applied in automobiles. For the school-implementation of printed electronics the authors have developed a flexible EL-device, which can be hand-printed using low-cost materials and methods.

Keywords

printed electronics, electroluminescence, semiconductor, hands-on experiment

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