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Chemistry World January 21, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Electron-conducting polymer for printed electronics The prospect of powerful electronic circuits made from printable plastics has moved a step closer with the discovery of a cheap, stable organic polymer semiconductor  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Poky Plastic Perks Up Materials scientists have invented the first polymer semiconductor to perform almost as well as the type of silicon used to drive flat-panel displays.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Monica Heger |
At Long Last, Plastic Electronics Goes Commercial Plastic Logic begins production today, racing with Polymer Vision to get flexible e-readers into consumers' hands  |
Chemistry World November 29, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Print quality nanotubes control LED switching Researchers in California have developed a way to print transistors made of carbon nanotubes and have used them to turn an organic light emitting diode on and off.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 |
Slideshow: Two Takes on Stretchy Circuits Breakthroughs in the United States and Japan allow for stretchable circuits, curved camera chips, and more.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman |
Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby.  |
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Plastic transistors go vertical Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have brought inexpensive, practical organic transistors a step closer to your grocery cart by devising a pair of processes that form small, vertical transistors from layers of printed polymer.  |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes on plastic speed circuits Many researchers are working to make plastic electronics that are as fast as today's silicon electronic components -- with the promise to enable flexible, inexpensive and very-large area computer screens. One group of researchers has taken a significant step closer to this goal.  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Process prints silicon circuits Researchers from Princeton University have demonstrated a way to use a flexible stamp to print thin-film transistors. The researchers' eventual goal is to directly print electronics on flexible surfaces.  |
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 Otis Por |
Just Two Words: Plastic Chips They can endow just about anything with computer smarts -- and they'll be cheap  |
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics Circuits on light, flexible surfaces could provide a range of products from paper-thin displays to intelligent food packaging and smart clothing.  |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Microfluidics make flat screens A new method for making big, cheap flat screen displays is a bit like making muffins. Pour liquid polymer into microfluidic channels aligned above an array of electrodes, let cure, and you have organic thin film transistors.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.  |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Angle speeds plastic transistor Going with the flow is a good way to pick up speed, particularly for plastic transistors. Rotating the crystal 180 degrees can change the transistor's performance by as much as 3.5 times.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Alexander Hellemans |
Could Belgian Diode Lead to Printable RFIDs? A team of researchers in Belgium are developing printable RFID tags which can reach higher frequencies.  |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Carbon boosts plastic circuits Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have devised an inexpensive way to add better-conducting organic source and drain electrodes to organic thin-film transistors.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Stephen Forrest |
The Dawn of Organic Electronics Organic semiconductors are strong candidates for creating flexible, full-color displays and circuits on plastic.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Andrew J. Steckl |
Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets  |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
See-Through Circuits Speed up Researchers have moved transparent semiconductors forward with an indium gallium zinc oxide mixture that can be deposited on plastic, is transparent, and potentially performs one to three orders of magnitude better than today's plastic transistors.  |
Chemistry World December 19, 2012 |
Overcoming small obstacles What if photolithography hits a barrier it cannot breach? That question has motivated scientists to recruit chemistry to a series of printing methods with the power to engineer nanometre-scale materials.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa |
Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Chang & Subramian |
Electronic Noses Sniff Success E-noses will soon be ubiquitous, thanks to printed organic semiconductors.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Painted LEDs make screen Spread it on a surface, shine tiny spots of ultraviolet light on it, and voila, a certain type of plastic turns into a full-color, high-resolution, flexible flat-screen display. The simple process could make computer screens much cheaper.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors.  |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 |
Nanowire Computer Circuits Debut Researchers have found a way to paint molecular-size circuitry onto glass. The method is potentially very low-cost, and could eventually be used to make computer chips that pack extremely tiny and thus powerful circuits.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Mark Anderson |
Inside the Plastic Electronics Revolution IEEE Spectrum tours Plastic Logic's new fab in Dresden, Germany, where it will make its Kindle-killing e-reader  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Willie D. Jones |
Electronic Circuits That Bend and Stretch U.S. scientists claim they have developed an improved plastic circuit that is not only flexible but also stretchable and foldable.  |
Chemistry World Jon Cartwright |
Rollerball Writes Electronics Straight to Paper Electronic circuits can be fiddly to make: engineers have to snap components onto a board or etch designs onto a copper surface. Now a US group of researchers has demonstrated that all you really need is a pen and some paper.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye |
Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors  |
Chemistry World March 27, 2008 Kira Welter |
Silicon Circuits do the Twist Silicon circuits that can be bent, stretched and twisted without breaking or losing their electronic properties have been developed by US scientists.  |
Chemistry World January 23, 2014 Andy Extance |
Phosphorene discovery positively impacts 2D electronics US researchers have made phosphorus into an analog of graphene, dubbed phosphorene, allowing practical electronic devices made from such two-dimensional materials.  |
Chemistry World July 24, 2006 Killugudi Jayaraman |
Plastic Solar Cells Make Light Work Solar cells based on organic semiconductors instead of silicon could potentially turn wall paints into a source of electricity, but their low efficiency is a major roadblock. Scientists now believe they have a new approach to boosting the output from polymer cells.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Joshua J Romero |
Japanese Engineers Turn High-k Dielectric Transistor Problem on Its Head One gate metal and two high-k dielectrics could mean a cheaper and easier 45-nanometer CMOS manufacturing process for transistors.  |
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 |
Stamp bangs out plastic circuits Today's transistors are etched from silicon wafers in a multi-step process that involves laser beams, chemicals and clean rooms. A simpler process would make for cheaper computer chips, and a gentler process would allow for transistors of different materials.  |
Industrial Physicist Konstantin Likharev |
Hybrid Semiconductor-Molecular Nanoelectronics Many physicists and engineers believe that the impending crisis due to limitations in CMOS technology may be resolved only by a radical paradigm shift from purely CMOS technology to hybrid semiconductor-molecular circuits.  |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 |
Organic transistors get small Researchers from Cornell University have shown that it is possible to fabricate useful organic thin film transistors that have a channel length as small as 30 nanometers. The smaller the channel, the faster the transistor. Previously, organic TFT channel lengths were limited to about 100 nm.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Justin Mullins |
Shedding Light On Organic Transistors The first single-crystal organic transistor that can be switched on and off by light is giving physicists a unique peek into the way photons interact with organic semiconductors. The new device could have a major impact on the way OLED displays are manufactured.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Neil Savage |
Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Material Grabs More Sun Silicon solar cells capture only some of the spectrum of sunlight, limiting their efficiency. A mix of several metals and oxygen could lead to solar cells that capture much more sunlight. The key is misaligning the material's crystal structure by infusing it with oxygen atoms.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Single electrons perform logic The ultimate in transistors, which turn on and off in response to a flow of electricity, is a device that can be tripped by a single electron. Researchers from Hokkaido University have put together an AND logic circuit made from four single-electron tunneling transistors.  |
Chemistry World October 17, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Shining a New Light on Nanowires Scientists have created tiny solar power cells using silicon nanowires 200 times thinner than a human hair. The cells could provide renewable energy for both nano- and large-scale applications.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng |
The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.  |
Chemistry World August 18, 2008 |
Patterning Promise for Next-Gen Computers Breakthroughs in controlling the way polymers self-assemble on surfaces could be key to making the next generation of computer components, say two teams in the US.  |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.  |
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 |
Nanotube Transistor Has Power Aiming to make electrical componets faster, researchers are working to make components from carbon nanotubes, which are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be smaller than a nanometer in diameter.  |
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Electricity shapes nano plastic Plastic is a popular material for electronics these days because it's light and flexible. But today's chipmaking processes tend toward hard crystals, not soft polymers. A method that yields microscopic plastic structures could help, and it's based on a readily-available resource -- electricity.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al. |
The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s.  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2004 Tim Stevens |
Technologies Of The Year -- IBM Corp.'s Nanotechnology For Semiconductor Processing Polymer molecules that self-assemble will enable smaller, more powerful semiconductor devices for the future. The technology promises significantly reduced feature size, higher component density, improved performance and lower voltage requirements for microelectronic devices.  |
Chemistry World January 21, 2009 Alexander Hellemans |
Quantum shuttling boost for organic solar cells Organic polymers can use a quantum effect to rapidly shuttle light energy along their chains, even at room temperature.  |
Scientific American December 2008 Jesse Emspak |
Chasing Rainbows: Full-Spectrum Photovoltaics From infrared to ultraviolet, a new photovoltaic material responds to the full spectrum of sunlight  |