A 1.12mW Continuous Healthcare Monitor Chip Integrated on a Planar Fashionable Circuit Board

Abstract

A planar thin-film technology is applied directly on the fabric to fabricate a planar fashionable circuit board (P-FCB) and to introduce a direct chip-integration technique on a P-FCB. Planar technology, which has helped make the current advance of electronics technology possible, is used to fabricate P-FCBs. Planar capacitor humidity sensors, a low-power controller chip and LEDs are integrated on a P-FCB for continuous healthcare monitoring applications. The P-FCB has the same electrical and mechanical properties as the clothes and also shows a graceful degradation in performance, exactly the same way as clothes do with time and usage.