configuration used in conventional wearables (Fitbit, Apple Watch). Application of Flexible OLED Display Technology for. Electro-Optical Stimulation of Neural ...
Adapting Flexible Electronics and Display Manufacturing Technology For Biomedical and Biotechnology Applications Joseph T. Smith1, Benjamin A. Katchman2, Michael Goryll3, Jennifer Blain Christen3, Karen S. Anderson2, and Gregory Raupp1 1Flexible
Electronics and Display Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, 2Virginia G. Piper Center for Personal Diagnostics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, 3School of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract We are currently exploring the viability of adapting the immense mass production capabilities of the commercial display industry to also manufacture low cost disposable biomedical sensors and wearable electronics on flexible substrates. We believe leveraging flexible display and related technology offers a huge untapped opportunity to produce high performance, multi-functional sensing and point-of-care diagnostic devices at low manufacturing cost. In particular, high TRL/MRL flexible thin film transistor (TFT) arrays in combination with photodetectors and light emitters provide platforms that can be readily integrated with biotechnology platforms to create new high impact products
Large Area Electronics and Display Technology Perspective • Huge Industry: In 2012, flat panel displays manufactured at rate of 100 square kilometers per year • Enough material to completely cover one hundred 18-hole golf courses
ASU Flex Bio Technology Demonstrator Platforms Early Detection of Cancer Biomarkers using OLED Display Technology combined with Printed Fluorescent Microarrays
• ASU Biodesign Institute developed high-density, fluorescent microarrays to detect disease biomarkers -- focus on cancer https://biodesign.asu.edu/personalized-diagnostics
Print >2,000 unique ~1mm diameter biorecognition sites onto each slide Optical analysis using scanning laser + camera ($500K laboratory instrument)
• Biorecognition site size approximates pixel pitch in flat panel display technology
Enabled us to replicate laboratory instrument diagnostic functionality using very low cost OLED display-based technology
• Low Cost Manufacturing: Commercial flat panel display factories currently can manufacture displays for
