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Transparent Transistors Printed On Paper
MTorrice writes "To make light-weight, inexpensive electronics using renewable materials, scientists have turned to a technology that is almost 2,000 years old: paper. Researchers fabricated organic transistors on a transparent, exceptionally smooth type of paper called nanopaper. This material has cellulose fibers that are only 10 nm in diameter. The nanopaper transistors are about 84% transparent, and their performance decreases only slightly when bent."
"technology that is almost 2,000 years old: paper."
Call me when they can use ePaper to do it.
It will be nice when we could print designs once made for fpga.
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This is confusing. Is it green or is it transparent? Maybe it's a light green. Just make up your mind.
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That is certainly a lot more modern, than silicone, which is about 14 billion years old.
Could we skip this bullshit? This nanopaper most certainly don't have too much in common with the paper made 2000 years ago.
Real life is overrated.
can this newfangled technology help me when wiping my ass? can it increase the surface-to-shit ratio?
. . . do you end up with a raging fire . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
And while the nanopaper may be biodegradable, I am wondering about the carbon nanotubes they are printing on top (as conductors). While the toxicity of carbon nanotubes is still being studied, there are good indications that they might behave similar to asbestos fibres. So not something you would necessarily want to throw on your compost heap.
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They'll need different Unicode characters to go from TTL to CMOS. Using those, they can build FPGAs.
Yes. Thank you for all coming today. I have here, in my hand, a new type of transistor that I have printed on this ORDINARY piece of paper. ... ... ... ...
What?
Of course you cant see them - they're transparent.
Do they work? Of course they do, and Jimmy here has a nice computer simulation of the process.
No, of course we can't demonstrate on the real thing, we still have to work out the interconnects and external interface, but trust me - they're on here.
Yes, I have printed what is essentially invisible transistors on this paper, and it will change the world. I just need a few million dollars in funding to help me work out some of the critical issues.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Really, bendable and transparent? I want my transistors fast and low power. It's just becoming silly.
Scientists huh!
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Looks like we'll be watching and trying not to hear poor renditions of happy birthday in the not too distant future.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Why do these renewable fanatics (not neccessarily these scientists, maybe the journos reporting this) always pick on the wrong things to renew. Looking around things that are manufactured - and discarded - the weight of transistors cannot constitute even 0.0001% of it all.
Why don't the greenies pick on something like the fact that many people rip out and replace their bathrooms and kitchens and general furniture every five years.
Unfortunately, making things "renewable", and hence compromising their robustness and lifetime, leads into a downward spiral in which people have to replace things frequently, leading to even more waste of material and energy, notwithstanding their "renewabilty". A transistor made of paper - who the heck is going to sit there at the end of its life and pick off the paper to recycle it? I think that even the up-country Chinese 8-year-olds who normally do this work will draw the line at that.
Now we can see electrons diffusing along the mesa, falling into holes and being swept away by an avalanche!
Tongue Twisters Picked A Pepper.
are now a step closer..
This will be ideal for folding at home.
when they get wet? regular paper does not fair so well :)
We got this news from another source almost eight years ago. Reporters love the idea of flexible screens and circuits. Strangely, I can't think of much need and the previous several inventions have obviously been totally forgotten. File this with flying cars, which are re-invented every 10 years. Nobody wants drunken Phil from down the street flying a car over their house. Nobody really wants a floppy TV screen.