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Nature 393, 619-620 (18 June 1998) | doi:10.1038/31333

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Putting it on plastic

Karl Ziemelis1

The quest to make integrated circuits entirely out of plastic has reached a landmark: functioning wafers have now been made that contain many such circuits. Their main advantages over much faster silicon electronics are simple — all-polymer devices are cheap and bendy.

  1. Karl Ziemelis is Physical Sciences Editor of Nature.
    e-mail: Email: k.ziemelis@nature.com