New direction may be breakthrough for flexible electronics

摘要

The technology of printing organic transistors onto a flexible substrate to create plastic circuits has existed for some time now and has found applications in the few instances in which flexibility is mandatory but speed, density, and energy efficiency are not important. The limiting factor in all these dimensions has been the organic-semiconducting material itself; all of the previously explored materials, although flexible and compatible with simple offset, ink-jet, or laser printing, have low carrier mobility.