Silicon is the main substrate used for the integrated circuits found in almost all electronic equipment available today. However, silicon could soon be replaced by plastic, film or even fabrics, with ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new way to 3D print electronics directly onto skin for the first time. The groundbreaking technology could also be used to ...

ThinFilm Electronics says it has assembled the pieces for a simple printed-on-plastic computing device with processing power, memory, and display that will enable "smart objects" and an Internet of ...

The main problems with today's battery technology is that, despite gradual advancements in recent years, cells are still too big, heavy and expensive, making them impractical for the many applications ...

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Thin films made from silver nanowires are 4,000 times more conductive than films made from other nanoparticle shapes, like spheres or microflakes, says a new study. The results indicate that ...

The attractiveness of printing electronics over more conventional approaches lies in its potential to pattern large-areas and flexible devices inexpensively on plastic substrates. 1 Such technologies ...

Researchers at AMBER have managed to crack a method of printing electronics in 2D for the first time using graphene, potentially leading to smart food labels. The days when electronics could only be ...

Norwegian-owned Thin Film Electronics, or Thinfilm, is in the business of printing electronics in massive volumes at a fraction of the cost of traditional silicon-based products. Its offerings range ...

While memory devices are becoming progressively more flexible, their ease of fabrication and integration in low performance applications have been generally been treated as being of secondary ...

Printable electronics are probably the holy grail of gadgets, they have been talked about for ages but very few products have actually emerged. This is mostly because of the high cost involved in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Samsung and its university research partners claim to have overcome two of the last hurdles to large-scale printable electronics on plastic substrates: an n-type organic semiconductor ...