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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 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 March 23, 2005 |
Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically. |
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 |
Plastic display circuit shines Researchers from the University of Tokyo have taken a step forward by fabricating on a glass surface a circuit that contains an organic light-emitting diode and an organic thin-film transistor. The diode was bright enough to be used in a display, according to the researchers. |
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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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. |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
All-plastic display demoed Researchers from Philips Research in the Netherlands have demonstrated a fast, flexible computer display that is nearly as thin as paper. |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
Metals Speed Clear Circuits Researchers have improved the performance of a new type of transparent transistor. The zinc tin oxide thin-film transistor is transparent, difficult to scratch, and conducts electricity an order of magnitude faster than previous efforts using the same class of material. |
PC Magazine March 10, 2004 Alfred Poor |
Flexible Display Forecast After years of slow but steady progress, momentum is picking up for one of technology's Holy Grails: the flexible plastic display. |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 |
Plastics Ease Nanotube Circuits Researchers have devised a way to make a random, self-assembled network of carbon nanotubes embedded in polymer that preserves the nanotubes' electrical conductivity and is suitable for thermal printing processes. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Mike Brown |
Carbon nanotubes in large panel displays US researchers have incorporated carbon nanotubes into organic light-emitting transistors to create devices that rival the performance of their silicon counterparts. |
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. |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Tiny transistors sniff chemicals Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have found that the chemical sensing abilities of infinitesimally small transistors made from thin films of the organic crystal pentacene are quite different from those of larger transistors made from the same materials. |
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 |
See-through circuits closer The transparent computer displays featured in the film Minority Report were made possible by special effects, but real-world transparent electronics are on the horizon. |
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. |
Chemistry World December 10, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Flexible organic flash memory Researchers have succeeded in making an elusive component of organic electronics: a flash memory transistor that can be incorporated into a thin, flexible plastic sheet. |
Information Today September 2000 |
E Ink Agreement with Lucent Will Help Develop Electronic Paper Agreement may accelerate the time when e-books and newspapers resembling flexible plastic sheets will be available for millions of users. |
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. |
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 September 2012 Alfred Poor |
Next-Generation Display Technologies New materials will mean brighter, sharper screens |
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 January 2009 Neil Savage |
Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Speed Flexible Circuits An Illinois company says it has made the first practical complementary polymer circuits. |
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. |
PC Magazine May 4, 2004 Alfred Poor |
What's New With Displays Our guide explains state-of-the-art display technology and looks ahead. |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 |
Paper promises better e-paper It is clear that computer displays will someday be thin and flexible enough to roll up, enabled by plastic electronics. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Andrew J. Steckl |
Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Carbon nanotubes enable flexible, printed electronics Flexible electronics for displays, electronic circuits, sensors, memory chips, and other applications are transitioning from rigid substrates, such as silicon and glass, to flexible substrates. |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin Researchers have devised pressure-sensor arrays that promise to give objects like rugs and robots the equivalent of one aspect of skin -- pressure sensitivity. |
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. |
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 |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 |
Organic Transistor and Memory Market to Reach $21.6 Billion by 2015 The growing demand for flexible, large-area electronic circuitry from packaging, displays, smartcards, sensors, and other sectors will drive the organic transistor and memory market to $21.6 billion by 2015 |
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. |
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. |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 |
Method tests molecular devices Components made from molecules are likely to be smaller than those that can be made using today's chip fabrication methods, and they can potentially self-assemble, which would make for inexpensive manufacturing processes. |
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. |
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 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. |
Entrepreneur December 2006 Amanda C. Kooser |
On a Roll Flexible display technologies will change the way you do business. |
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. |
Chemistry World August 7, 2008 |
Elastic Conductor Stretches Electronics Scientists have printed organic transistors onto elastic conducting materials to create stretchy electronic sheets. |