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SUMMARY:The Evolution of Electronics
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bauer\nSoft Matter Physics - Johannes Kepl
 er University - Weiz\, Austria\nElectronic devices advanced from heavy\, b
 ulky origins to smart\, mobile appliances. The commercial landscape of tod
 ay’s electronics industry is dominated by microelectronics\, best reflec
 ted by ultrahigh density integrated circuits on rigid silicon. A new trend
  in electronics evolves from accompanying appliances to an imperceptible f
 orm\, wearable as glasses\, textiles and medical prostheses\, directly adh
 erent to the skin\, or inner organs like the heart and the brain\, establi
 shing a seamless link between living beings and electronic devices. Flexib
 ility\, compliance\, weight\, and softness will be key metrics in next gen
 eration electronic appliances. Scientists currently explore the potential 
 of elastic and soft forms of electronics\, but also of robots and energy h
 arvesters. The last few years have seen an explosion of such soft matter b
 ased demonstrators\, so we are currently at the verge of witnessing the de
 monstration of truly complex bionic systems\, eventually similar to the 
 “machine-human” in the science fiction movie Metropolis or the sentien
 t android Data in Star Trek. In the presentation\, a few areas of this new
  branch of soft matter science will be highlighted.\nBio: Siegfried Bauer 
 received the Master and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Technical Univer
 sity in Karlsruhe in 1986 and 1990\, respectively. In 1992 he joined the H
 einrich Hertz Institute for Communication Engineering in Berlin\, Germany.
  In 1996 he earned the Habilitation Degree from the University of Potsdam.
  In 1997 he became a Professor of Experimental Physics at the Johannes Kep
 ler University Linz\, Austria. Since 2002 he has been head of the Soft Mat
 ter Physics Department. Dr. Bauer's research is devoted to functional soft
  matter and its application to flexible and stretchable electronics and to
  energy harvesting. In 2012 Dr. Bauer was awarded with a European Research
  Council Advanced Investigators Grant.
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