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Transparent Transistors Are Coming

Posted by samzenpus on from the invisible-keyboard dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Transparent electronics is an emerging technology which aims to produce invisible electronic circuits. Now, researchers from Oregon report they made a major advance in transparent electronics. Their zinc-tin-oxide 'thin-film' materials are amorphous, physically robust, chemically stable and cheap to produce at just above room temperature. These new materials and transistors offer many new possibilities for consumer electronics, transportation, business and the military."

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  1. Roland Piquepaille by DarkHelmet · · Score: 3, Interesting
    #1: This is a followup on another story.

    #2: This Roland Piquepaille stuff is getting on my nerves. There is obviously some kind of either backdoor deal, or favoritism for this guy getting stories.

    Where is your journalistic integrity?

    Hey Slashdot! I feel like having the option to block this guy out on my Edit Home Page Page. I mean, he has more submissions than "samzenpus," whoever the hell that is.

    Don't force me to write a RSS filter that blocks phrasewords out. I'm feeling too lazy atm.

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    1. Re:Roland Piquepaille by artifex2004 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "And are you paying for your access?"

      ...oh, wait, you are! :) Just kidding. If you look closely, you'll see that actually, a LOT of the submissions that make the cut are actually submitted by people who wrote the article or worked on the team, or whatever. Slashdot is acting as a news summary service, they don't go out and do their own reporting. So people who offer a lot of material often find it getting through, especially if the first batch is well received. Or if it's a slow day. Or it hasn't been posted already in the last 4 hours. Or...

      It's still a nice website, especially at my discounted rate.

  2. I wonder if it contains... by Brad1138 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Transparent aluminum?

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  3. Reduced "screen door" effect by K8Fan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Currently, the quality and definition of LCD screens and LCD chips used in projectors is due to the fact that the driver circuitry for each cell is in the area around the cell. And the yeild for both is limited by not having redundant driver circuitry for each cell. If these transistors truely are transparent, does this mean that the driver circuitry could be in the middle of each cell, and the area between each cell could be reduced to a bare minimum? And does this mean that they could have additional circuirty so the cells could be self-healing and could eliminate both "burned on" and "burned off" pixels?

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  4. I thought this was OLD story. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Correct me if I'm wrong but there are already transparent transistors in the most of your LCD displays. They are the ones that control the each sub-pixels on your screen.
    If this is new then I discovered that bananas were shaped like California... ;)

  5. Re:Roland Piquepaille and /.: Is there a connectio by pha777 · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I think that Roland Piquepaille's biz is entirely legitimate.

    His job is to research the web for people who do not have the time to do it, and he is getting $600 for his job.

    What's wrong with that?
    Ok, he didn't give credits before, but now he do.

    So, don't bother him.

    It's a differente story the issue about slashdot posting.

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