When you mention the board, the first thing that people think of is the piece of green or blue board covered with dense metal wires. It is only the engineering man who has been studying hard for more than a decade. However, with the advent of printing concepts and technologies, you can now implement circuit board design on paper or even plastic film. See the figure below, Black Technology.
Traditional circuit board manufacturing methods are costly and polluting. However, with this new printed electronics technology, you can use conventional printing equipment for board production, offset, flexo, gravure, digital, etc., which can be used to mass produce such printed circuit boards. . The media is more colorful, paper, film, glass and so on. The circuit board thus produced is not the kind of hard state, it can be bent and thinner, and can be used in various fields such as smart packaging and smart labels.
Today, various sensors and data storage units are becoming smaller and smaller, and some are already small enough to be used in packaging and label production. These sensors and data storage units are combined with printed circuits to create smart packaging and labels. For example, food labels that can monitor temperature, labels that can detect air pressure, and the like.
Of course, the use of printed circuit boards is not the only use of printed electronics. According to market research, printed electronics has a huge market prospect, with a compound annual growth rate of 33.8%, and will reach 40.2 billion dollars in 2020, and may reach 300 billion dollars in 2030.
