Transfer-printed devices for biomedical applications

The “transfer printing” method provides opportunities for the integration of brittle inorganic electronic materials and organic flexible/stretchable substrates which provides an array of opportunities for application in the biomedical field. This chapter introduces the recent advance in heterogeneously integrated materials and integrated inorganic devices for biomedical applications. The first part of the chapter describes materials including metals, oxides, silicon, wide bandgap semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, and biomaterials. The second part of the chapter describes functional devices including light-emitting diodess, photodetector, energy-harvesting devices, and bioresorbable materials and devices. This chapter introduces different fabrication methods for flexible bioelectronics and discusses their working mechanism.