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Investigation and Evaluation of Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Electronics and its Environmental Impacts Analysis

Rajeev Kumar Kanth, Qiansu Wan, Pasi Liljeberg, Aulis Tuominen, Lirong Zheng, Hannu Tenhunen, Investigation and Evaluation of Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Electronics and its Environmental Impacts Analysis. In: Proceedings of NEXT 2010 Conference, 52-67, NEXT Conference, 2010.

Abstract:

This paper presents cradle to gate life cycle assessment of printed electronics resources. In this work an attempt has been made to investigate and evaluate the life cycle assessment and the environmental impacts of printed electronics resources such as printed RFID antenna. Life cycle inventory analysis for these resources has been carried out to quantify total systems’ inputs and outputs that are relevant to environmental impact especially emissions to air, fresh water. We have also compared printed flexible substrate structure based on polymer substrate with inkjet material deposition to more traditional PCB technology. The chosen approach can be easily relevant to other flexible substrates and materials or device structures.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpKaWaLiTuZhTe10a,
  title = {Investigation and Evaluation of Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Electronics and its Environmental Impacts Analysis},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of NEXT 2010 Conference},
  author = {Kanth, Rajeev Kumar and Wan, Qiansu and Liljeberg, Pasi and Tuominen, Aulis and Zheng, Lirong and Tenhunen, Hannu},
  number = {7},
  publisher = {NEXT Conference},
  pages = {52-67},
  year = {2010},
  keywords = {Printed RFID antenna, Conventional PCB Antenna, Flexible Substrate, Inkjet printing, LCA Software, Recycling Technology},
}

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