Paper Electronics to be Addressed at Printed Electronics USA Conference

Transistors, RFID and displays

Organic inks forming unusually flexible and conformal patterns are useful for printing on paper but, because of the challenging topology, the resulting transistors still have limited performance. Indeed, some take several seconds to switch. Polyera will present on printed light emitting transistors based on multistacking structures, a typical component that may first appear on plastic film then later on paper. Professor Margit Harting of the University of Cpe Town in South Africa will describe crushed silicon diodes, thermistors and potentially transistors printed at very low cost onto paper. Nanogram describes printing of nanosilicon devices.