Foldable Flex and Thinned Silicon Multichip Packaging Technology

1. 3-D Assemblies of Stacked Chips and other Thin Packages.- 2. Multi-Chip Carriers in a System-on-a-Chip World.- 3. Packaging Technologies for Flexible Systems.- 4. Low Profile and Flexible Electronic Assemblies Using Ultra-Thin Silicon - The European Flex-Si Project.- 5. Thin Chips for Flexible and 3-D Integrated Electronic Systems.- 6. Flexible Microarray Interconnection Techniques Applied to Biomedical Microdevices.- 7. Folded Flex and other Structures for System-in-a Package.- 8. Valtronic CSP3D Technology.- 9. 3-D Packaging Technologies: Are Flex based Solutions the Answer?.- 10. Availability of High Density Interconnect Flexible Circuits.- 11. Recent Advances in Flexible Circuit Technology Using Liquid Crystal Polymer Substrates.- 12. Flex and the Interconnected Mesh Power System (IMPS).- 13. Thermal Management and Control of Electromagnetic Emissions.- Conclusions.- Authors’ Biographies.