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Chemistry World November 29, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Print quality nanotubes control LED switching Researchers in California have developed a way to print transistors made of carbon nanotubes and have used them to turn an organic light emitting diode on and off. |
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Plastic transistors go vertical Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have brought inexpensive, practical organic transistors a step closer to your grocery cart by devising a pair of processes that form small, vertical transistors from layers of printed polymer. |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Tiny pumps drive liquid circuits Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have combined microfluidics and organic electronics to make a tunable plastic transistor that could enable low-cost methods to drive, control and monitor labs-on-a-chip. The device can also use tiny amounts of fluid to adjust optical devices. |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Carbon boosts plastic circuits Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have devised an inexpensive way to add better-conducting organic source and drain electrodes to organic thin-film transistors. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Neil Savage |
Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Process prints silicon circuits Researchers from Princeton University have demonstrated a way to use a flexible stamp to print thin-film transistors. The researchers' eventual goal is to directly print electronics on flexible surfaces. |
Chemistry World March 27, 2008 Kira Welter |
Silicon Circuits do the Twist Silicon circuits that can be bent, stretched and twisted without breaking or losing their electronic properties have been developed by US scientists. |
Chemistry World July 11, 2010 Mike Brown |
Make some noise for smart fibres Fibres made of multiple materials could function as communication transceivers, emitting an electrical response or sound when the fibres are put under stress or subject to acoustic waves of a range of frequencies, say researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World December 15, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Electronics go on a Bender The prospect of low-cost, efficient electronic circuits being applied to flexible substrates has moved a step closer with two pieces of research reported by US scientists. |
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 |
DNA part makes transistor Researchers from the University of Lecce in Italy and the University of Bologna in Italy have produced a transistor made from a derivative of one of the four bases that make up DNA. |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 |
Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment. |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Microfluidics make flat screens A new method for making big, cheap flat screen displays is a bit like making muffins. Pour liquid polymer into microfluidic channels aligned above an array of electrodes, let cure, and you have organic thin film transistors. |
Chemistry World February 15, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Worms' diet the key to coloured silk Scientists in Singapore have found out how to produce coloured silk based on the diet fed to silkworms. |
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 |
Nanotube Transistor Has Power Aiming to make electrical componets faster, researchers are working to make components from carbon nanotubes, which are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be smaller than a nanometer in diameter. |
Technology Research News March 23, 2005 |
Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically. |
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics Circuits on light, flexible surfaces could provide a range of products from paper-thin displays to intelligent food packaging and smart clothing. |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Chemicals map nanowire arrays There are two challenges to getting nanowire arrays ready for prime time -- finding ways of accessing any particular nanowire junction, and connecting the devices to the outside world. Chemically modifying the right junctions could solve both problems. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman |
Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Joshua J Romero |
Japanese Engineers Turn High-k Dielectric Transistor Problem on Its Head One gate metal and two high-k dielectrics could mean a cheaper and easier 45-nanometer CMOS manufacturing process for transistors. |
Chemistry World March 23, 2015 Sonja Hampel |
Flexible polymer threads set to light up clothing Fashions on the catwalk could soon become a whole lot funkier with the development of new light-emitting threads that can be knitted or woven into textiles. |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics. |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 |
Method tests molecular devices Components made from molecules are likely to be smaller than those that can be made using today's chip fabrication methods, and they can potentially self-assemble, which would make for inexpensive manufacturing processes. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Liu et al. |
MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Angle speeds plastic transistor Going with the flow is a good way to pick up speed, particularly for plastic transistors. Rotating the crystal 180 degrees can change the transistor's performance by as much as 3.5 times. |
Chemistry World December 10, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Flexible organic flash memory Researchers have succeeded in making an elusive component of organic electronics: a flash memory transistor that can be incorporated into a thin, flexible plastic sheet. |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes on plastic speed circuits Many researchers are working to make plastic electronics that are as fast as today's silicon electronic components -- with the promise to enable flexible, inexpensive and very-large area computer screens. One group of researchers has taken a significant step closer to this goal. |
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 |
Nanotube Makes Metal Transistor Researchers from the University of Illinois have found a way to produce a field effect in a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube that conducts electricity 40 times more efficiently than copper. The metal transistor could be used in practical applications in five to ten years. |
Chemistry World August 7, 2008 |
Elastic Conductor Stretches Electronics Scientists have printed organic transistors onto elastic conducting materials to create stretchy electronic sheets. |
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 |
Plastic display circuit shines Researchers from the University of Tokyo have taken a step forward by fabricating on a glass surface a circuit that contains an organic light-emitting diode and an organic thin-film transistor. The diode was bright enough to be used in a display, according to the researchers. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee |
Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates. |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2009 Nina Notman |
Metal toughens up spider silk Spider silk, already one of the strongest fibres known, can be made even stronger by infusing metals into its protein structure, scientists in Germany say. |
Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Andy Extance |
Silicon sliver implants melt away A US-led team has made the first completely water-soluble silicon-based circuits and demonstrated simple medical implant devices that wouldn't need later removal. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Water-Catching Spinout From Synthetic Spider Silk Synthetic spider silk can collect water more efficiently than its natural counterpart |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Alexander Hellemans |
Thermal Transistor: The World's Tiniest Refrigerator Thermal transistors refrigerate one electron at a time and physicists plan to compute with heat. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Ahmed & Schuegraf |
Transistor Wars Rival architectures face off in a bid to keep Moore's Law alive. In May, Intel announced the most dramatic change to the architecture of the transistor since the device was invented. |
InternetNews February 2, 2005 Michael Singer |
HP's 'Crossbar Latch' to Replace Transistors? The company's Quantum Science Research group comes up with new signal technology that could power computers. |
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 |
Cold logic promises speedy devices Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory have made a superconducting logic circuit that computes very quickly and requires little power. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Andrew J. Steckl |
Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al. |
The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2013 James Urquhart |
Filler to patch up ancient silk delicates Chinese researchers have found a way to restore and strengthen ancient, fragile silk fabrics using an enzyme-mediated reaction to fill in tiny cracks in the fibers. |
Chemistry World September 2, 2015 Carolyn Devlin |
Shrinking hydrogel reinforces fabric for soft yet strong material A hydrogel -- fabric composite that can support a load almost three times greater than the fabric alone has been made by scientists. |
CIO May 15, 2001 John Edwards |
Upholding Moore's Law What's .03 microns long and can be turned on and off 10 billion times a second? It's a new transistor that has the potential to keep Moore's Law on the books for at least several more years... |
Chemistry World July 3, 2012 Simon Perks |
Ultrafast transistors created in a vacuum Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, US, have come up with a new type of transistor that uses a vacuum to conduct electrons a hundred times faster than the conventional solid-state version. |
Chemistry World August 3, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Weaving with bacteria Bacteria-packed fabrics that can suck pollutants out of water have been made by American researchers. |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 |
Organic transistors get small Researchers from Cornell University have shown that it is possible to fabricate useful organic thin film transistors that have a channel length as small as 30 nanometers. The smaller the channel, the faster the transistor. Previously, organic TFT channel lengths were limited to about 100 nm. |
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 |
See-through circuits closer The transparent computer displays featured in the film Minority Report were made possible by special effects, but real-world transparent electronics are on the horizon. |
Chemistry World January 16, 2015 Emma Stephen |
Caddisfly silk gets shocked into self-recovery The tough, extendable, energy-dissipating properties of the casemaker caddisfly's adhesive silk are down to a self-recovering network of calcium cross links, new research shows. |
Chemistry World October 20, 2011 Rebecca Brodie |
New Power for Smart Garments Scientists in the US have taken the first steps towards designing a flexible and lightweight fabric that can act as a power supply for smart garments. |