New Tech Promises Flexible And Paper-Thin Tablets And TV Screens


Other research groups have already created functioning transistors and flash memory gates out of TMDC materials.

So the discovery of how to make wires provides the means for interconnecting these basic elements.

Next to the transistors, wiring is one of the most important parts of an integrated circuit. Although today’s integrated circuits (chips) are the size of a thumbnail, they contain more than 32 kms of copper wiring.

“This will likely stimulate a huge research interest in monolayer circuit design,” Lin said.

“Because this technique uses electron irradiation, it can in principle be applicable to any kind of electron-based instrument, such as electron-beam lithography,” Lin added.

One of the intriguing properties of monolayer circuitry is its toughness and flexibility.

It is too early to predict what kinds of applications it will produce, but “If you let your imagination go, you can envision tablets and television displays that are as thin as a sheet of paper that you can roll up and stuff in your pocket or purse,” Pantelides said.

The study included a group headed by Kazu Suenaga at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan. Other collaborators at ORNL, the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University contributed to the project.

The study was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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Source: PTI