The First Paper-Based Transistors 177
Roland Piquepaille found news of research out of Portugal that has resulted in the first paper-based transistors (the original article is less informative than Roland's blog). More precisely, they've made the first field effect transistors (FET) with a paper interstrate layer. According to the research team, such transistors offer the same level of performance as 'state-of-the-art, oxide-based thin film transistors produced on glass or crystalline silicon substrates.' Possible applications include disposable electronics devices, such as paper displays, smart labels, bio-applications or RFID tags. The research will be published in IEEE Electron Device Letters in September.
Hmmm ... (Score:2, Insightful)
What about moisture or humidity? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:This is great and everything.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Paper can be made out of a lot more things than trees. Hemp for instance.
ohnoitsroland (Score:5, Insightful)
I think it will take more than one or two decent submission to redeem himself of all the crap submissions that caused all the agitation for the ability to filter posts by submitter and the creation of firefox add-ons specifically for filtering him.
Re:ohnoitsroland (Score:1, Insightful)
Kickbacks. Roland is gaming the submission system and probably kicking back ad dough to one or more submitters. Which would be fine... if he were buying advertising clearly identifiable as advertising. Buying pagerank by paying off /. editors for plogger postings masquerading as real content is pretty low.
Re:ohnoitsroland (Score:3, Insightful)
think...why does he keep getting front page stories? because they like helping jerks? no--they like helping themselves.