Hybrid has good energy properties
By
INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 07 April 2004, 10:51
A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS at the
University of Arkansas said that hybrid chips combining
plastic and silicon could lead to flexible devices
that promise to be cheaper too.
Physics boffin Huaxiang Fu said he used solid state
theory to look at a combo of organic material and
inorganic semiconductors.
He and his team claim to have
established that such a hybrid will keep the good
electronic properties of silicon, while the use of
plastic even gives advantages over pure semiconductor
materials.
The results of his study are
published in the Journal of Chemical Physics.
The team looked at the properties
of a single atomic layer of semiconductor material
sandwiched between two layers of organic polymers.
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