(Invited) Intelligent Fiber Electronics for Textile Computation

Abstract

Textiles are an indispensable part of our everyday life. They provide us with protection, offer privacy, and form an intimate expression of ourselves through their aesthetics. Imparting functionality at the fiber level represents an intriguing path toward innovative textiles with a hitherto unparalleled functionality and value. The integration of a variety of electronic and optoelectronic materials within thermally-drawn fibers has enabled fiber electronics. A new generation of textiles that can see, hear and speak, sense, communicate, harvest and store energy, as well as store and process data is thus emerging, setting a stage for textiles to be the next frontier in computation. This talk will feature fiber electronics enabled intelligent textiles which is becoming a sophisticated platform delivering value-added services for our society.Figure 1. Thermally drawn fibers that integrate chips, circuits, semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, composites, etc. can be directly woven into fabrics enabling a multitude of functionalities [1, 2].[1] Wei Yan, Grace Noel, Gabriel Loke, Elizabeth Meiklejohn, Tural Khudiyev, Juliette Marion, Guanchun Rui, Jinuan Lin, Juliana Cherston, Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Joao Wilbert, Irmandy Wicaksono, Reed W. Hoyt, Anais Missakian, Lei Zhu, Chu Ma, John Joannopoulos, Yoel Fink*. Single fiber enables acoustic fabrics via nanometer scale vibrations. Nature 603 (2022) 616.[2] Shengtai Qian, Mingyang Liu, Yuhai Dou, Yoel Fink and Wei Yan*. A ‘Moore’s law’ for fibers enables intelligent fabrics. National Science Review (2022) Figure 1