Tutorial 2

Luisa Petti
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen

Abstract: Thanks to the extraordinary advances recently experienced in the field of materials, manufacturing processes, device architectures, and system integration, it is now possible to realize electronic devices featuring not only standard electrical properties, but also more unique and novel mechanical and chemical capabilities. The ability of these devices to ubiquitously conform to any complex three-dimensionally shaped surface and/or dissolute or degrade in specific environments is extremely important not only for biomedical applications, but also in more traditional areas such as in industrial or even agricultural fields. This tutorial will provide a short overview of the field of flexible electronics, introducing the following tutorials on stretchable electronics, wearable devices, and smart object interaction.

Biography: Luisa Petti received her M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2011. She obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2016 with a thesis entitled “Metal oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors for flexible electronics”, for which she won the ETH medal. After a short post-doc at ETH Zurich, she joined first Cambridge Display Technology Ltd in October 2016 and then FlexEnable Ltd in December 2017 in Cambridge, UK as a Scientist. In 2018 she joined the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she is Associate Professor in Electronics since March 2021 and vice-head of the Sensing Technologies Lab. She is recipient of the 2019 IEEE EDS Early Career Award, recognizing her early career technical achievements in the field of flexible electronic devices.
Luisa's current research includes the design, fabrication and characterization of flexible and printable sensors, energy harvesters, and thin-film devices and circuits. Her research activity aims at the realization of fully autonomous systems incorporating sensing, energy harvesting, storage, read-out and wireless communication functionality, to be used for IoT, environmental, food science, as well as precision agriculture applications.
She is IEEE senior member and member of the IEEE EDS technical committee on flexible electronics and displays.