News tagged with printed semiconductors

'Printed chips' could be boon for consumers

Until now, creating the microchips that power all of our electronic gadgets has been a laborious, complex and time-consuming process costing billions of dollars. But if a Milpitas, Calif.-based startup succeeds, making them ...

Technology / Semiconductors

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Researchers develop a path to liquid solar cells that can be printed onto surfaces

Scientists at USC have developed a potential pathway to cheap, stable solar cells made from nanocrystals so small they can exist as a liquid ink and be painted or printed onto clear surfaces.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Quantum dot LEDs get brighter, more efficient

(Phys.org) -- While quantum dot-based light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) are not made of organic materials, they share many of the same advantages as organic LEDs (OLEDs). For instance, both QLEDs and OLEDs outshine ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Plastic electronics: a neat solution

(Phys.org) -- A breakthrough in the development of a new generation of plastic electronic circuits by researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory brings flexible and transparent intelligent materials – such ...

Technology / Engineering

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How to corner the MEMS market

In the last decade, MEMS (microelectromechanical devices) have wrought revolutions in several industries: Arrays of micromirrors, for instance, enabled digital film projectors, and accelerometers like those ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New generation of flexible graphene transistors

Making electronic components using graphene, a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, is one of today's major technological challenges. Researchers hope to harness the outstanding electron mobility ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The world's first sterilizable flexible organic transistor

An international research team has succeeded in manufacturing on a polymeric film the world’s first flexible organic transistor that is robust enough under high temperature medical sterilization process. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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New nanoglue is thin and supersticky

Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have invented a superthin "nanoglue" that could be used in new-generation microchip fabrication.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Micropatterning Director at TSMC suggests e-beam lithography may replace EUV

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most integrated circuits today are made by using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, but that could change, according to Burn Lin, Micropatterning Director at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1 weblog

World's first 300mm-fab compatible directed self-assembly process line

At next week’s SPIE Advanced Lithography conference (San Jose, CA), imec announces the successful implementation of the world first 300mm fab-compatible Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) process line all-under-one-roof ...

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New kind of solar cell could capture significantly more energy than current cells

New solar cells could increase the maximum efficiency of solar panels by over 25%, according to scientists from the University of Cambridge.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 14 | with audio podcast


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