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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 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.
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.
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 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.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically.
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 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
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.
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 April 9, 2003	Sandwich promises cheap storage University of California at Los Angeles researchers have used a simple, inexpensive manufacturing technique to fabricate tiny sandwiches of organic material and metal that can be used as electrical switches.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Plastic Computer Memory's Secret Is Gold Nanoparticles Taiwanese engineers make simple, stable nonvolatile memory from mix of plastic and nanoparticles.
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 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 March 9, 2005	Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics.
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 David Lammers	Resistive RAM Gains Ground Faith in phase-change memory falters
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.
Chemistry World April 3, 2012 Steve Down	Tuning into a radio solution to money forgers Scientists in Saudi Arabia have fitted radiofrequency identification tags to banknotes to prevent counterfeiting.
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 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 June 18, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Prefab key to molecular memory Nano-devices promise to use molecules as super-fast computer circuits, store fantastic amounts of information in a minuscule area and sense minute amounts of chemicals and biological materials. Researchers have brought these possibilities a step closer.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Flash Memory Survives 100 Million Cycles A little heat lets flash beat typical 10 000-cycle limit
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 June 27, 2013 Ian Randall	Molecular transistor for cheaper, greener electronics Chinese and Danish scientists have placed a transistor made from a single molecular monolayer onto an electronic chip. The new chip harnesses graphene oxide as a transparent electrode so that light can be used to switch the transistor.
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.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Rachel Courtland	Alternative Memories Get the Carbon Nanotube Test RRAM and phase-change memory - two alternatives to flash - have been constructed using carbon nanotube electrodes.
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 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.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Film promises massive storage Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a way to store the 1s and 0s of digital information in a thin film of organic molecules using a scanning tunneling microscope.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger	Flurry of Floating-Body Memory Research, but Still No Products Intel and Toshiba show off their competitors to Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Stamp Forms Organic Laser Researchers have found a class of materials that promises to improve organic electronic components like lasers, light-emitting diodes, and waveguides. Light-emitting diodes are a key component of computer screens, and waveguides channel light.
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.
Chemistry World March 19, 2014 Jon Cartwright	Computer memory made from sugar cube The sugar-based metal -- organic framework infused with rubidium hydroxide can be switched between high and low resistance states, in a similar way to resistive random-access memory.
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.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Film promises terabit storage Scientists are looking to cram more information in a given area by finding ways to store the 1s and 0s of computer information in single molecules.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Solar Cell Doubles as Battery Scientists have designed a single, compact device that can both convert solar energy to electricity and store the electricity.
Technology Research News June 4, 2003	DNA part makes transistor Researchers from the University of Lecce in Italy and the University of Bologna in Italy have produced a transistor made from a derivative of one of the four bases that make up DNA.
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.
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 December 13, 2010 Jamie Lendino	Scientists Develop Self-Healing Plastics Resarchers have now figured out a way to build plastic material that heals itself.
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Eric Smalley	Device demos terabit storage Researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation in Japan have found a way to store huge amounts of data after figuring out how to make many tiny, inverted dots in a thin film of metal and determining how to sense the state of each dot.
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 July 2008 John Boyd	Mixing Memory To Speed Solid-State Drives Korean researchers find that a little ferroelectric RAM goes a long way
Chemistry World July 17, 2009 Andy Extance	Window opened on nanodot domain state formation British and German scientists claim they have directly observed how domain states form in nanometre-scale ferroelectric crystals for the first time.
InternetNews January 9, 2008	Hynix Sees DRAM Rebound Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory maker, predicts a comeback for the computer-chip market as demand remains strong.
Chemistry World February 10, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Ferroelectrics without the twist Japanese chemists have developed a new ferroelectric material based on small hydrogen-bonded molecular crystals of croconic acid.
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Chemistry World May 2, 2010 Mike Brown	OLETs have bright future in electronic lasers Scientists in Italy have developed organic light-emitting transistors that are more efficient light sources than organic light-emitting diodes, and could be used in much sought after electrically pumped organic laser devices.
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
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