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Kenjiro Fukuda

Kenjiro Fukuda

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
58
Citations
11766
World Ranking
1886
National Ranking
64

Overview

Kenjiro Fukuda is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and specializes in the field of engineering, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, polymers and plastics, mechanical engineering, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their research covers a broad array of topics centered around advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, conducting polymers and applications, organic electronics and photovoltaics, advanced materials and mechanics, nanowire synthesis and applications, tactile and sensory interactions, and neuroscience and neural engineering.

Fukuda's recent publications include:

  • The Future of Flexible Organic Solar Cells, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Flexible self-charging power sources, 2022, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Ultrathin Hydrogel Films toward Breathable Skin-Integrated Electronics, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • A 1.3-micrometre-thick elastic conductor for seamless on-skin and implantable sensors, 2022, Nature Electronics
  • Robust metal ion-chelated polymer interfacial layer for ultraflexible non-fullerene organic solar cells, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their work include Takao Someya, Tomoyuki Yokota, Masahito Takakuwa, Shinjiro Umezu, and Lulu Sun.

Fukuda's research has been published prominently in venues such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nature Communications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and npj Flexible Electronics.

In addition to journal articles, Fukuda has contributed to book literature, including a publication with Springer Science+Business Media titled The Science of Soft Robots (2023).

Best Publications

  • Self-powered ultra-flexible electronics via nano-grating-patterned organic photovoltaics.

    Sungjun Park;Sungjun Park;Soo Won Heo;Wonryung Lee;Daishi Inoue

  • The Future of Flexible Organic Solar Cells

    Kenjiro Fukuda;Kilho Yu;Takao Someya

  • Flexible self-charging power sources

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  • Stretchable and waterproof elastomer-coated organic photovoltaics for washable electronic textile applications

    Hiroaki Jinno;Hiroaki Jinno;Kenjiro Fukuda;Kenjiro Fukuda;Xiaomin Xu;Sungjun Park

  • Fully-printed high-performance organic thin-film transistors and circuitry on one-micron-thick polymer films

    Kenjiro Fukuda;Yasunori Takeda;Yudai Yoshimura;Rei Shiwaku

  • Organic transistors with high thermal stability for medical applications

    Kazunori Kuribara;He Wang;Naoya Uchiyama;Kenjiro Fukuda

  • Recent Progress in the Development of Printed Thin-Film Transistors and Circuits with High-Resolution Printing Technology.

    Kenjiro Fukuda;Takao Someya

  • Ultrathin Hydrogel Films toward Breathable Skin‐Integrated Electronics

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  • Ultraflexible near-infrared organic photodetectors for conformal photoplethysmogram sensors

    Sungjun Park;Kenjiro Fukuda;Ming Wang;Chulhyo Lee

  • A 1.3-micrometre-thick elastic conductor for seamless on-skin and implantable sensors

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  • Pseudo-CMOS: A Design Style for Low-Cost and Robust Flexible Electronics

    Tsung-Ching Huang;K Fukuda;Chun-Ming Lo;Yung-Hui Yeh

  • Ultrasoft electronics to monitor dynamically pulsing cardiomyocytes

    Sunghoon Lee;Daisuke Sasaki;Dongmin Kim;Mami Mori

  • Fully Solution-Processed Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistor Arrays with High Mobility and Exceptional Uniformity

    Kenjiro Fukuda;Yasunori Takeda;Makoto Mizukami;Daisuke Kumaki

  • Self-powered ultraflexible photonic skin for continuous bio-signal detection via air-operation-stable polymer light-emitting diodes.

    Hiroaki Jinno;Tomoyuki Yokota;Mari Koizumi;Wakako Yukita

  • Robust metal ion-chelated polymer interfacial layer for ultraflexible non-fullerene organic solar cells.

    Fei Qin;Wen Wang;Lulu Sun;Xueshi Jiang

  • Recent Progress of Flexible Image Sensors for Biomedical Applications.

    Tomoyuki Yokota;Kenjiro Fukuda;Takao Someya

  • Fabrication of Ultra-Thin Printed Organic TFT CMOS Logic Circuits Optimized for Low-Voltage Wearable Sensor Applications

    Yasunori Takeda;Kazuma Hayasaka;Rei Shiwaku;Koji Yokosawa

  • A Highly Responsive Organic Image Sensor Based on a Two‐Terminal Organic Photodetector with Photomultiplication

    Yi-Lin Wu;Kenjiro Fukuda;Tomoyuki Yokota;Takao Someya

  • Smart Face Mask Based on an Ultrathin Pressure Sensor for Wireless Monitoring of Breath Conditions.

    Junwen Zhong;Zhaoyang Li;Masahito Takakuwa;Daishi Inoue

  • Effects of the alkyl chain length in phosphonic acid self-assembled monolayer gate dielectrics on the performance and stability of low-voltage organic thin-film transistors

    Kenjiro Fukuda;Takanori Hamamoto;Tomoyuki Yokota;Tsuyoshi Sekitani

  • A 4 V Operation, Flexible Braille Display Using Organic Transistors, Carbon Nanotube Actuators, and Organic Static Random-Access Memory

    Kenjiro Fukuda;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Ute Zschieschang;Hagen Klauk

  • Highly Stretchable Metallic Nanowire Networks Reinforced by the Underlying Randomly Distributed Elastic Polymer Nanofibers via Interfacial Adhesion Improvement

    Zhi Jiang;Osman Goni Nayeem;Kenjiro Fukuda;Su Ding

  • Three-Dimensional, Inkjet-Printed Organic Transistors and Integrated Circuits with 100% Yield, High Uniformity, and Long-Term Stability

    Jimin Kwon;Yasunori Takeda;Kenjiro Fukuda;Kilwon Cho

  • Profile Control of Inkjet Printed Silver Electrodes and Their Application to Organic Transistors

    Kenjiro Fukuda;Tomohito Sekine;Daisuke Kumaki;Shizuo Tokito

Frequent Co-Authors

Takao Someya
Takao Someya University of Tokyo
Shizuo Tokito
Shizuo Tokito Yamagata University
Tomoyuki Yokota
Tomoyuki Yokota University of Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Sekitani
Tsuyoshi Sekitani Osaka University
Kazuo Takimiya
Kazuo Takimiya Tohoku University
Itaru Osaka
Itaru Osaka Hiroshima University
Hagen Klauk
Hagen Klauk Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Ute Zschieschang
Ute Zschieschang Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Takayasu Sakurai
Takayasu Sakurai University of Tokyo

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