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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 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 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.
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 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 January 26, 2005	Plastic Memory Retains Data Researchers in Austria have borrowed a technique from audio recording technology to fashion a new type of computer memory made from organic, or plastic materials.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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
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.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Layers promise cheap storage Princeton University and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories researchers have constructed a very low cost data storage device from plastic and silicon that can potentially store one hundred megabits of information per square centimeter.
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 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.
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 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 February 2013 Andrew J. Steckl	Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets
Chemistry World June 18, 2015 Suzanne Howson	Nano-accordions stretch the boundaries for flexible electronics Scientists in the US have unveiled a conductive and transparent material that also stretches, thanks to its corrugated design.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically.
Chemistry World October 9, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Growing gallium nitride LEDs on glass Korean researchers have grown crystalline gallium nitride on the surface of amorphous glass. The idea could lead to new, scalable ways of making semiconductor devices that don't need to be grown on silicon or sapphire wafers.
PC Magazine April 19, 2006	Smart Glass Electronics engineer John Wager has invented the world's first transparent integrated circuit, which could be the basis of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't displays.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Ultrathin carbon speeds circuits Researchers have found that the equivalent of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- sheets of carbon atoms only a few atoms thick -- have comparable electrical properties and are more compatible with today's chipmaking methods. It could be used practically within five years
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Alfred Poor	Next-Generation Display Technologies New materials will mean brighter, sharper screens
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.
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Eric Smalley	Cheaper optics-chip link on tap One of the best ways to speed up the Internet would be to extend all the way to the home the fiber-optic lines that make up the Net's backbone. One piece of the fiber-to-the-home puzzle is a low-cost way of converting light pulses to electrical signals. A new semiconductor may do the trick.
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 February 23, 2005	Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics.
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 10, 2004 Eric Smalley	Red wine mends solar cells Researchers from the University of Toledo have found a way to increase energy production using red wine.
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.
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 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
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	Solar Cell Teams Plastic and Carbon Researchers have fabricated an inexpensive, plastic-based solar cell that has the potential to be fairly efficient
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 January 2009 Prachi Patel-Predd	The Trouble With Touch Screens Scientists search for a replacement for indium-tin oxide, a transparent conductor that's vanishing fast.
InternetNews January 2, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Semiconductor Sales Spike in November The Semiconductor Industry Association on Tuesday reported a surprising spike in November semiconductor sales.
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.
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
Technology Research News April 7, 2004	Nano ribbons coil into rings Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way to coax microscopic zinc oxide ribbons to spontaneously coil, slinky-like, into perfect rings.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004	Nanowire Makes Standup Transistor Researchers have devised a simple way to make a set of vertical transistors from nanowires.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Hafnium-Based Insulators May Extend Moore's Law Chip-company executives have identified hafnium-based insulators, which will replace widely used silicon dioxide in semiconductors, as instrumental to their planned breakthroughs for small, powerful semiconductors.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Willie D. Jones	You Tell Us: Flexible Plastic Displays Here's an invention Caesar would have found familiar: a scroll that displays the news and then rolls up for easy storage. However, it is made not of parchment but of plastic.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010	Rad-Hard Semiconductors That Resist Space Radiation in Space Electronics Offered by Rochester Rochester Electronics is expanding its inventory and manufacturing capabilities for space-qualified semiconductors that resist the effects of space radiation.
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 September 15, 2011 Elinor Richards	Electricity - Any Time, Any Place An energy scavenger device that can convert both solar energy and movement energy into electricity to power portable electronics has been made by scientists from Korea and the US.