Fiber-based luminescent electrical devices can be impeccably incorporated in textiles, permitting applications in flexible display, sensors, and mask. Incorporation of fibers into textiles is anticipated to amplify the human–machine interactions .
Several authors reviewed [8, 29, 30, 31] the progress of application of fiber and textile fibers as flexible substrate in the electronic devices in the past.
Fiber- and textile-based electronic devices for bulk/scalable fabrications, encapsulation, and testing are reviewed and presented future research ideas to enhance the commercialization of these fiber-based electronics devices.
Continuous fabrication of the flexible electronic devices is quite challenging to obtain a stable interfacial bonding among active material and textile fibers. These devices are still designed and fabricated at laboratory scale manually, and there is no automatic procedure and technique for their production.
The recent state-of-the-art technology for integration of flexible electronics components comprises the design of flexible electronics that can be directly woven into textile to obtain a fully wearable electronic device.
Poor performance: one of the major limitations of the fiber and textile-based electronic devices is the poor performance compared to its counterparts, i.e., rigid electronic devices and thin film devices. One of the main reasons for poor performance of the FBEDs is their thin shape which give lower conductivity as compared to plan electrodes.