Organic Conductors with Electrical Conductivity as Good as a Metallic Conductor

摘要

For over a decade research groups from all over the world have been competing with one another to fabricate electronic devices using organic material. This is due to the fact that the advantages on employing organic electronics compared to that of silicon counterparts seem enormous. The electronic devices manufactured using organic material could be flexible, as well as smaller, cheaper, and easier to manufacture compared to those fabricated using silicon. The research work by the researchers from the University of Pittsburgh based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, might have some significant impact on forth coming innovations in the organic electronics domain. Until the recent past, organic conductors have been considered to posses lesser electrical conductivity compared to metal conductors. Toward overcoming this issue, the researchers have demonstrated that certain organic or carbon based molecules are capable of conducting electricity with the same potential as a metal conductor. These hollow, soccer ball-shaped organic molecules used in this research are called fullerenes. According to the researchers fullerenes possess excellent electrical characteristics similar to that of a conductive atom.