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Taiwan Flexible Hybrid Electronics Technical Committee Update

By Cher Wu, SEMI Taiwan

In 2020, SEMI Standards Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Global Technical Committee (GTC) co-led by Steven Huang of AiQ Smart Clothing and YE Yeh, Vice President of ASE Group has set up its first Task Force team named “FHE System for Wearable” to address immediate needs for FHE industry standards that can further enable large scale adoption of FHE products designed for smart textile applications. This task force co-led by two experts from the Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Dr. Wei-Yuan Cheng and Dr. Doug Lee has been working on several metrology technology topics such as sheet resistance measurement, line impedance measurement, and reliability test method for washing of the smart clothing.

The latest update about the “FHE System for Wearable” Task Force has reworked two ballots after receiving a few comments from the GTC. The team plans re-submit the documents by Voting Cycle 1, 2022.

A new topic has been submitted and approved by the Taiwan FHE TC Chapter in November.

Electronic textiles are the basic platform to integrate various subsystems on it. In order to connect the signal between different textile-based and non-textile-based subsystem and integrate all the different signals into control module, the control module connectors are the major components to make sure the power or signal transfer smoothly. However, salt mist and/or washability is one of the main factors that affect the reliability of the connector. In order to constitute and align an efficient supply chain, generic test flows are needed to integrate the performed tests. Therefore, this guide provides generic test flows and referenced standards of test methods for control module connector applying on electronic textiles.

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The SEMI Standards Program Technical Committee and Task Force meetings are held throughout the year in all major manufacturing regions. For more information, contact your local Standards staff, or visit the SEMI Standards Web site. For a listing of Standards relevant to FHE manufacturing, visit the SEMI FHE Standards web page.

Association Contact
Cher Wu: Senior Executive Consultant - Standards, SEMI Taiwan, Email: [email protected]
 

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December 2, 2021