IEEE SF Bay Area MEMS and Sensor Chapter and Northeastern University – Silicon Valley present a joint workshop on Flexible / Printed / Fabric Sensors and Systems.

General Chair: Roger Grace, Roger Grace Associates | Technical Chair: Ramesh Ramadoss, IEEE | Exhibits Chair: Brent Lunceford, IEEE
Organizing Committee: P.K. Agarwal; Rick Davis, Northeastern University
Host: P. K. Agarwal, Northeastern University – Silicon Valley

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the field of flexible, printed and organic large-area electronics and sensors. These new printed electronics and sensors are fabricated on flexible plastic substrates, which offer advantages such as mechanical flexibility, light weight and low profile. The use of flexible plastic substrates enables low cost high-speed manufacturing of devices over large areas using printing technologies in a Roll-to-Roll production line. Targeted applications include wearables, environmental monitoring and eHealth.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded $75M to FlexTech Alliance to establish and manage a San Jose-based hub and node approach to create a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) for Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE MII). Additionally, the recent award of $75M , again by the US DoD, with $250M in matching grants from industry and academia for the creation of a research and development consortia headed by MIT for the development of ”Functional Fabrics” has validated the potential of this technology to create “smart fabrics” for consumer and military wearable applications.

This one-day workshop will bring together experts and leaders in this area to the heart of Silicon Valley. The workshop will consist of presentations on the topics of printed/flexible/fabric sensors, accompanying electronics and applications, as well as the current and future opportunities. The event will include an interactive panel discussion on the future of this rapidly growing market and the potential barriers to their commercialization. Continental breakfast, lunch and the concluding evening networking mixer is included.

Agenda:

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast and Networking

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Session I: Sensors

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch and Networking

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Session II: Systems

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Interactive Panel Discussion

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Cocktail Reception and Networking

Speakers:

Please note speakers from 5 to 16 are listed in alphabetical order of their last names. To view the speaker's bio and abstract, please visit the main event page.

1. P.K. Agarwal
(Dean & CEO, Northeastern University – Silicon Valley)
Welcome Remarks

2. James C. Bean
(Provost & SVP of Academic Affairs, Northeastern University)
Overview of Research at Northeastern University

3. Session I Keynote: John Volakis
(Chope Chair Professor of Engineering, Ohio State University)
Conductive Textiles for Wearable Electronics

4. Session II Keynote: Ahmed Busnaina
(William Lincoln Smith Professor, Northeastern University)
Nano and Microscale Printing of Sensors and Electronics Using Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials

5. Coralie Gallis
(Business Development Manager, CEA-LETI)
Smart Wearables: Examples of Sensor and Energy Harvesting Integration in Flexible Devices

6. KG Ganapathi
(Co-Founder & CEO, INVIS Technologies Corp.)
Flexible devices for large market applications

7. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman
(Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center)
Plasma Jet Based Fabrication of Printed Electronics & Sensors

8. Wei Gao
(Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley)
Wearable Sweat Biosensors

9. Roger H. Grace
(President, RG Associates)
Strategies for the Successful Commercialization of Printed/Flexible/Fabric Sensors

10. Alex “Bruce” Johnson
(Device Systems Engineer, Brewer Science, Inc.)
Applications of Printed Resistive Flex Sensors

11. Christine Kallmayer
(Group Manager, Fraunhofer IZM, Germany)
Textile Integrated Sensors Systems

12. Arye Lipman
(Strategic Alliances Manager, IMEC, Belgium)
A printable flexible sensor for simultaneous detection of multiple ions in fluids

13. Art Muir
(Business Development Manager, Parker Hannifin)
Dielectric Electroactive Polymer Sensors

14. Jae Son
(Founder & CEO, Pressure Profile Systems)
Flexible and Conformable Capacitive Tactile Sensors from R&D to Commercialization

15. Joseph Stetter
(President & CTO, SPEC-Sensors)
Printed Electrochemical Sensors for Air Quality and e-Health Applications

16. Cihan Yilmaz
(Associate Research Scientist, NSEC, Northeastern University)
Nano and Microscale Printing of Sensors and Electronics Using Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials