scope:

This standard establishes specific requirements for the design of printed electronic applications and their forms of component mounting and interconnecting structures on coated or treated textile substrates. Textile substrate, as pertains to this standard, could be a bare textile or an integrated e-textile (e.g., woven or knitted e-textile).

Coated or treated textile substrates, as pertain to this standard, are textile substrates which have or will have a coating or treatment localized or across the full substrate.

Purpose

The purpose of this standard is to establish specific design details, materials, test requirements, mechanical properties, physical properties, thermal management, interconnections and quality assurance for printed electronics on coated or treated textile substrates.

Coatings and treatments may be applied for printability of the textile substrate and/or for performance of the textile substrate or finished printed electronics e-textile (e.g., hydrophobic, water retardance, flame retardance, surface energy). Coatings or treatments may be applied using printing, lamination or other processes.

This standard does not cover printed electronics on nontextile substrates that may have some amount of pliability or stretchabilty (e.g., stretchable films).