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Researchers redefine ultrathin display process

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University has developed a new process for manufacturing high-performance flexible displays on transparent plastic.


Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor

Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (61) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ...


Insights into polymer film instability could aid high tech industries

Insights into polymer film instability could aid high tech industries

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While exploring the properties of polymer formation, a team of scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology has made a fundamental discovery* about these materials that could improve methods ...


New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes

New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 27, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (77) | comments 0

The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields. Now, scientists have constructed a transistor made of a network ...


Bottoms up: Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics

Bottoms up: Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics

Chemistry /

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Seoul National University have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment ...


Scientists demonstrate potential of graphene films as next-generation transistors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 1

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have characterized an aspect of graphene film behavior by measuring the way it conducts electricity on a substrate. This milestone advances the potential application of graphene, ...


Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Substrates

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...


Large area transistors get helping hand from quantum effects

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers from the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan, and the Advanced Technology Institute of the University of Surrey today report that nano-designed transistors for the large area display and sensor application ...


Carbon nanotube

Researchers uncover recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes hold promise for delivering medicine directly to a tumor; acting as sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron; replacing costly platinum in ...


Record speed for thin-film transistors could open door for flexible electronics

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 04, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 0

A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a method of making flexible, thin-film transistors (TFTs) that are not only inexpensive to produce, but also capable of high speeds — even microwave frequency, ...


Thinnest superconducting metal created

Thinnest superconducting metal created

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin.


Molecular Alignment Gives Monolayers the Edge in Bendable Semiconductor

Molecular Alignment Gives Monolayers the Edge in Bendable Semiconductor

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Reprogrammable product tags, bendable displays and flexible solar cells--the field of organic semiconductor research is advancing these possibilities toward reality. By layering hydrocarbon ...


Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a simple chemical process, scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can then be printed into ...


Printable, Flexible Carbon-Nanotube Transistors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (61) | comments 2

Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Brewer Science, Inc. have used carbon nanotubes as the basis for a high-speed thin-film transistors printed onto sheets of flexible plastic. Their method may allow ...


Researchers achieve breakthrough in effort to develop tiny biological fuel cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of Georgia researchers have developed a successful way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges, a first step in developing biological fuel cells that could power pacemakers, cochlear implants ...