Circuit and System Design for Flexible and Printed Electronics
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flexible and printed electronics are transforming the way circuits and systems are conceived, fabricated, and deployed. By combining thin-film transistor technologies, printed passive components, and additive manufacturing processes, this field enables ultra-low-cost, mechanically compliant, and environmentally sustainable solutions that cannot be achieved with conventional silicon. Recent advances show that complex analog and mixed-signal circuits, such as regulators, timers, charge pumps, and sensor interfaces, can now be implemented in oxide TFT platforms while narrowing the performance gap with silicon technologies, thus expanding the range of potential applications.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions that address the design, modeling, and experimental demonstration of circuits and systems for flexible and printed electronics. We encourage both fundamental studies and application-oriented works whose scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: energy-efficient circuit topologies, sensor and communication interfaces, power management and harvesting solutions, and system integration strategies. Topics such as reliability under bending, variability-aware design, and approaches to enhancing manufacturability and scalability are also of significant interest. This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how circuit and system design is enabling the transition of flexible and printed electronics into real-world technologies.
Dr. Oscar Alonso
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flexible electronics
- printed electronics
- thin-film transistor circuits
- analog and mixed-signal flexible design
- power management in flexible ICs
- sensor and communication interfaces
- biomedical and wearable circuits
- reliability and variability-aware design
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