Printed electronics (Glossary of Printed Electronic terms)

Printed electronics is a term loosely used to cover very thin electronic devices and circuits and even some that are purely electrical. This is because these technologies and their applications interrelate and overlap. They have a great deal in common. Even the word printing is used loosely because though vacuum deposition, as an example, may not be regarded as printing by the purists, it often evolves into conventional printing using electronic inks to produce the same thin electronic device.

 

See the IDTechEx report Introduction to Printed Electronics