Paint-on semiconductor outperforms chips

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Paint-on semiconductor Image: Ted Sargent
Paint-on semiconductor, Image: Ted Sargent

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today's conventional chips -- and they made it simply by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass. The finding, which represents the first time a so-called "wet" semiconductor device has bested traditional, more costly grown-crystal semiconductor devices, is reported in the July 13 issue of the journal Nature.


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