ElastaTronic™ is a hybrid circuit technology designed for smart textiles. The circuits combine screen-printed circuits with surface-mounted silicon chip ICs and discrete components.

Conductive Transfers has already demonstrated hybrid circuits with track and gap dimensions down to 300µm, two conducting silver layers, printed NFC and RFID antennas, discrete resistors, capacitors, inductors and crystals and RGB LEDs, RFID, NFC and capacitive touch chips. Assembly of the surface mount components onto the printed circuit can be carried out using industrial pick-and place machines and use conductive adhesive to electrically bond the components to the circuit making the process cost-effective. For smart textile applications, a flexible textile adhesive is deposited onto each component to ensure good mechanical integration with the textile during the transfer(heat pressing) stage. ElastaTronic™ technology is protected with granted patents in major global markets.