Printed Electronics Organics

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend.

This week, the German ministry for Education and Research BMBF announced the 5 winners in a strategic program which aims to strengthen cooperation between science, research and industry with 200 million Euros over the next 5 years.

In Portugal, a new field effect transistor with paper interstrate layer has now been developed.

Printed electronics today is mainly a matter of inorganic rather than organic chemistry and the next ten years are unlikely to see the inorganic part drop below 50% of the high value materials required.

Printed electronics holds possibilities for applications including printed organic solar cells, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and flexible displays