USC researchers print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on fle... ( It's a clear colorless disk about 5 ...)

USC researchers print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on flexible base

Date:12/16/2008

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process.

Its University of Southern California creators believe the prototype points the way to such long sought after applications as affordable "head-up" car windshield displays. The lattices could also be used to create cheap, ultra thin, low-power "e-paper" displays.

They might even be incorporated into fabric that would change color or pattern as desired for clothing or even wall covering, into nametags, signage and other applications.

A team at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering created the new device, described and illustrated in a just-published paper on "Transparent Electronics Based on Printed Aligned Nanotubes on Rigid and Flexible Structures" in the journal ACS Nano.

Graduate students Fumiaki Ishikawa and Hsiaoh-Kang Chang worked under Professor Chongwu Zhou of the School's Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering on the project, solving the problems of attaching dense matrices of carbon nanotubes not just to heat-resistant glass but also to flexible but highly heat-vulnerable transparent plastic substrates.

The researchers not only created printed circuit lattices of nanotube-based transistors to the transparent plastic but also additionally connected them to commercial gallium nitrate (GaN) light-emitting diodes, which change their luminosity by a factor of 1,000 as they are energized.

"Our results suggest that aligned nanotubes have great potential to work as building blocks for future transparent electronics," say the researchers.

The thin transparent thin-film transistor technology developed employs carbon nanotubes - tubes with walls one carbon atom thick - as the active channels for the circuits, controlled
'/>"/>

Contact: Eric Mankin
mankin@usc.edu
213-821-1887
University of Southern California
Source:Eurekalert

0

GOOD

Page: 1 2
Related biology technology :

1. J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers Publish Significant Advance in Genome Assembly Technology
2. Virginia Tech researchers discover how mosquitoes avoid succumbing to viruses they transmit
3. Alfred Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering Launches New Web Site Designed to Help University Researchers Bring Biomedical Advances to Market
4. 2010 Japan Prize to Honor Scientists and Researchers in Industrial Production/Production Technology and Biological Production/Environment Fields
5. Clemson researchers advance nanoscale electromechanical sensors
6. Researchers discover method for mass production of nanomaterial graphene
7. VAP(R) Cholesterol Test Helps Researchers Identify Treatment Effects of Combination Therapy
8. Ultrafast lasers give CU-Boulder researchers a snapshot of electrons in action
9. The Lancets New Online Medical Journal Helps Clinicians and Medical Researchers Find Practice-Changing Evidence Quickly and Easily
10. Researchers show how to stamp nanodevices with rubber molds
11. Researchers write protein nanoarrays using a fountain pen and electric fields

Post Your Comments:

USC researchers print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on fle...( It's a clear colorless disk about 5 ...)