Details on the world’s fastest integrated circuit — embedded in a stretchy, wearable material that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo — were published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials on May 27. The research, led by Zhenqiang Ma, PhD, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests the technology could be used to facilitate ultra high-speed wireless communications between integrated circuits worn on the skin and medical devices used for patient monitoring and tracking. This monitoring could be either remote or in-hospital, eliminating the need to wire up patients to an uncomfortable extent.
“We’ve found a way to integrate high-frequency active transistors into a useful circuit that can be wireless,” Dr. Ma said in a statement. “This is a platform. This opens the door to lots of new capabilities.”
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