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A diverse printed future

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An approach that entails printing compound-semiconductor ribbons on a silicon substrate offers the means to build nanoscale transistors that can be switched on and off much more effectively than their bulk analogues. See Letter page 286

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Figure 1: Heterogeneous electronics by printing.

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