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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.  |
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 March 18, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Electronic tag dissolves in water A water soluble radio-frequency identification tag that can melt away in a matter of minutes has been developed in John Rogers' lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World December 15, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Electronics go on a Bender The prospect of low-cost, efficient electronic circuits being applied to flexible substrates has moved a step closer with two pieces of research reported by US scientists.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 |
Process prints silicon on plastic The components could be used in flexible large-area displays, radiofrequency ID tags, sensors, and flexible applications like reconfigurable antennas.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John McHale |
Raytheon technique for growing semiconductor compounds on silicon to provide affordable ICs to DOD Experts at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are demonstrating that affordable, high-performance circuits for military applications can be produced by growing semiconductor compounds directly on silicon.  |
Chemistry World October 17, 2010 Laura Howes |
Twist and shine An international team of researchers has developed flexible sheets of tiny light emitting diodes that could be implanted under the skin like glowing tattoos and used in a range of biomedical applications.  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Efficient solar cells from silicon wires US researchers have designed a new silicon-based solar cell which uses 100 times less silicon than conventional photovoltaic devices.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World February 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
First Graphene Transistors May Herald Future of Electronic Chips Researchers claim to have created the world's first practical transistors cut from ribbons of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World March 25, 2014 David Bradley |
Silkscreen printing goes nano A team at Tufts University, US, has demonstrated that water can be used as the base for electron-beam lithography if silk is the target material with another acting as the mask for areas onto which the beam must not impinge.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2011 Ozpinec & Tolbert |
Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher Meet the material that will supplant silicon in hybrid cars and the electric grid  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz |
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.  |
Chemistry World January 5, 2011 Jon Cartright |
Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments.  |
Chemistry World March 27, 2012 Laura Howes |
Temporary tattoo to give you the sporting edge This Saturday, Nascar racer Paulie Harraka will be using a device based on John Rogers work at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to monitor his hydration levels as he races.  |
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 January 28, 2004 |
Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Neil Savage |
Graphene's New Rival Molybdenum disulfide helps graphene transistors work better -- and it makes good nanocircuits on its own, too  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Tiny pumps drive liquid circuits Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have combined microfluidics and organic electronics to make a tunable plastic transistor that could enable low-cost methods to drive, control and monitor labs-on-a-chip. The device can also use tiny amounts of fluid to adjust optical devices.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Ice transforms chipmaking Spraying water vapor onto cold silicon could be a simple way to make computer chips. The key is etching nanoscale lines into the resulting ice to make microscopic computer circuits. The process is environmentally friendly to boot.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Flexible electronics get even more bendy Researchers in Switzerland have developed a method to create electronic membranes that are thin and flexible enough to wrap around a human hair.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage |
Light at the End of the Chip IBM's low-power germanium photodetectors may bring optical interconnects to microprocessors  |
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.  |
Chemistry World November 10, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Biodegradable electronics dissolve after use Christopher Bettinger and Zhenan Bao from Stanford University in California, US, set out to fabricate a biodegradable and biocompatible transistor.  |
Inc. April 1, 2002 Kate O'Sullivan |
I'll Take Manhattan A Silicon Valley start-up combats semiconductor sprawl by figuring out a way to build its circuits up rather than out....  |
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  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
Silicon Wafer Shipments Experience Growth for the Fifth Consecutive Year Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 20 percent in 2006 when compared to 2005 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG).  |
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  |
Chemistry World November 25, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Silicon for better batteries A new silicon-based anode could greatly increase the storage capacity of lithium ion batteries - boosting the runtimes of devices such as laptops and mobile phones by up to seven times  |
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  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 |
Paper Transistor Researchers from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal, say they've made a transistor in which paper acts as a functional component.  |
Chemistry World November 25, 2015 Jon Cartwright |
Perovskite boosts silicon solar cell efficiency A UK company claims it can boost the efficiency of a silicon solar cell by 20% by adding a layer of the light-sensitive crystal perovskite.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World March 7, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Diatoms Transformed Into Silicon Sensors Materials scientists have found a simple method of converting frustules - the intricate silica-based skeletons of common single celled photosynthetic organisms called diatoms - into pure silicon structures with many applications.  |
Chemistry World November 17, 2013 Tim Wogan |
Self-healing battery cracks anode fracturing problem US researchers have created battery anodes that heal themselves after they fracture, substantially prolonging battery life.  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Slim-Line Silicon Speeds up Protein Separation Tough, ultra-slim silicon membranes could drastically improve the performance of lab-on-a-chip micro-analytical systems, kidney dialysis machines and, in the future, even produce an artificial kidney, claim researchers.  |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2010 Anders Bylund |
No Longer a Skeptic of Silicon Image Like it or not, Silicon Image and its consumer-unfriendly technologies are here to stay.  |
Chemistry World September 9, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Old but still flexible Semiconductors made from synthetic organic materials are an attractive alternative to silicon as they offer flexibility and simple manufacturing processes.  |
Geotimes November 2003 Lisa Corathers |
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon The Silicon Commodity Specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey has compiled this information about silicon, an extremely versatile mineral with many applications in the manufacture of iron and steel, aluminum alloys, chemicals, and electronic microchips.  |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 |
Silicon Surfaces Speed Circuits Researchers have devised a way to use the chemistry of silicon surfaces to make smaller chip features.  |
Chemistry World September 27, 2013 Emma Stoye |
First carbon nanotube computer Researchers in the US have unveiled the first computer to be built entirely from carbon nanotube transistors.  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2002 Patricia Panchak |
Technologies Of The Year -- Molecular Electronics Hewlett-Packard breakthrough could extend limits of silicon chips.  |
Chemistry World November 18, 2014 Tim Wogan |
New silicon allotrope could revolutionize solar cells A new, direct band gap allotrope of silicon has been synthesized by researchers in the US. It could potentially revolutionize solar cells and light-emitting devices.  |