Xerox scientist sees promise in plastic
News People have been talking about low-cost transistors for years, but no one has come up with the material to do this till now. Polythiophene also presents a realistic challenge to silicon-based transistors for display technologies, which require...
[December 4, 2002, 9:55]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News We're talking about a billion transistors on a chip operating at a half a volt at well over 10GHz. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a microprocessor doubles approximately every 18 months.
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
Researchers move toward plastic chips
News But several promising research efforts are underway to combine the two realms, using organic polymers as material for the production of microelectronics, including transistors and displays. Organic polymers that conduct electricity have been around...
[October 12, 2001, 9:05]
Digital paper turns a new page
News Start-up E Ink Corp.announced on Tuesday a partnership with Lucent Technologies to combine E Ink's digital paper technology with Lucent's research into printable organic transistors. Lucent announced several breakthroughs in plastic transistors...
[October 13, 1999, 8:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What's particularly exciting about this is the way the transistors are made. Moreover, the sludge is organic. Wednesday 17/10/2001 You've gotta love Bell Labs. Not content with inventing the transistor, the research arm of Lucent -- which is a bit...
[October 19, 2001, 17:52]
Dell runs out of...glass?
Blog Comment What I find amazing is that the process involves such a range of extreme techniques, including building millions of transparent transistors atop a sea of precisely delineated chemicals, in a physical format as fragile as Mother Theresa's hip-bone...
[October 12, 2007, 18:06]
Plastic transistors get rubber stamp
News Silk-screening and other techniques to create so-called "plastic transistors" have been proposed, but none can create really small transistors. This new process opens up a whole lot of possibilities for us, like using organic materials.
[March 25, 1999, 5:59]
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News Japan's Epson will show how it has created thin film transistors (TFTs), found in flat panels, with ink-jet printers. Researchers from MIT, Sony and Infineon, among others, will outline ideas for making flexible screens, RFID tags and sensors out...
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
Bell Labs finds end of the road for transistors
News Moore's Law states that the number of transistors per integrated circuit will double every 18 months, and has held true since 1965. We need to see whether we can do amplification and switching with single molecules, to see where the ultimate limit...
[October 18, 2001, 15:34]
MIT looks into the technology crystal ball Pt II
News The field of flexible transistors, a possible replacement for silicon, is another area that has been talked about for a while but is finally producing some results. Work on chips made from plastic or organic materials is going on at IBM, Lucent...
[December 29, 2000, 9:26]
Flexible LCD unveiled by Samsung
News The flexible screens rely on a low-temperature manufacturing process for transistors, developed by Samsung, that does not melt or distort the plastic substrate. Other companies, meanwhile, tout organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which also...
[November 29, 2005, 8:50]
Photos: Technology Showcase at IDF review
Reviews This is not the first time 45nm wafers have been seen in captivity, but this 12in.collection of circuits could contain around seventy thousand billion transistors — considerably more than there are stars in the largest galaxies known to man.
[April 17, 2007, 12:50]
