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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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Andrew J. Steckl
Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Chang & Subramian
Electronic Noses Sniff Success E-noses will soon be ubiquitous, thanks to printed organic semiconductors. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Neil Savage
Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2006
Holonyak & Feng
The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles