Study opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
Date | 8th, Oct 2018 |
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Source | EurekAlert - Scientific News Websites |
DESCRIPTION
MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting films made from a host of exotic materials other than silicon. To demonstrate their technique, the researchers fabricated flexible films made from gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, and lithium fluoride -- materials that exhibit better performance than silicon but until now have been prohibitively expensive to produce in functional devices.