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Rocket Fuel Speeds Transistors

Posted by michael on from the firey-performance dept.

Mick Ohrberg writes "The rocket fuel hydrazine has been proven to increase the speed of thin-film transistors, which are used in LCD displays. It's also much cheaper to produce these transistors in a new "wet" manufacturing technique, based on creating the thin layers by using the centrifugal force caused by spinning the substrate. The result? Well, if the manufacturing cost plummets, maybe that 42" LCD monitor for my PC will be within (financial) reach soon."

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  1. OLED influenced as well? by geschild · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm wondering: as I understood it, the LCD plants need only minor changes to be able to put out OLED panels instead of TFT/LCD.

    If this process is little different from LCD manufacturing and LCD is not very different from OLED, will OLED benefit as well?

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  2. Re:Fire! by goneutt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The impermeable skin of the Hindenburg was made of canvas treated with a solution that included more than a touch of nitric acid. Cellulose + Nitric acid= Nitro Cellulose aka guncotton aka Celludloid film which early movies used, resulting in the occasional projection booth fire.

    If only gigli had been filmed on this stuff.

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