Paper Electronics to be Addressed at Printed Electronics USA Conference

In Portugal, an elegant new zinc oxide field effect transistor with the paper substrate doubling as the gate dielectric layer has been developed by the New University of Lisbon. Remarkably, it has one hundred times the switching speed of amorphous silicon and organic transistors. Electronic paper is not all about cost reduction. Indeed, Kimberley Clark licenses its carbon impregnated paper process that can involve patterning to form heaters and they could activate electrothermic displays printed on top.