Giant photodetector leverages organic semiconductor advancements

May 23, 2007

Seems like every day brings new advances in the area of organic semiconductors (aka polymer semiconductors, plastic semiconductors, and printable electronics): Nanoident, an Austrian consortium located in Linz, announced it created what it claims is the world’s largest printed semiconductor-based photodetector array on a flexible PET foil substrate. If that seems like a lot of qualifiers, it’s nevertheless an impressive feat, considering that this array is 18×12cm with 50×50cm and larger easily within reach.

And at this week’s Society for Information Display conference in Long Beach, CA, LG Philips unveiled a full-color flexible amorphous silicon active matrix organic LED display using phosphorescent OLEDs from Universal Display (Ewing, NJ).

Why am I so excited about the leaps and bounds in organic/plastic/polymer electronics? If you’re dealing with ultra-low-power electronics, these things sip power. They’re great enabling technology for electronics that virtually live on air.

Posted by Margery Conner on May 23, 2007 | Comments (1)

May 25, 2007

In response to: Giant photodetector leverages organic semiconductor advancements
Z commented:

What a relief. Only air. We don't need that, anyway. Not like food, for example. With people starving on the planet we're going to share our food with some biologicals that will turn it into biodiesel. Then, if we're real lucky--bad lucky--the biologicals will get loose, mutate, and eat all the food on the planet. But at least we'll have oil.

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