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Nature 412, 489-490 (2 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35087682
Flexible electronic futures
Robert J. Hamers
Abstract
Microelectronic devices incorporating organic materials could find a host of applications. That prospect inches nearer with the development of a strategy for growing thin films of the organic semiconductor pentacene.
Virtually all of today's microelectronic devices are made from inorganic materials — silicon and gallium arsenide, for instance. But in the past few years there has been an explosion of interest in devices made from organic molecules for application in devices such as mechanically flexible computers and displays, and even truly 'molecular' computers in which individual molecules replace today's transistors1, 2, 3.
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