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Nature 429, 709-711 (17 June 2004) | doi:10.1038/429709a
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Laser physics: Fantastic plastic
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Plastics are ubiquitous, thanks to the cheapness and versatility of these materials. Now plastic lasers are in prospect, battery-operated for low-cost communication and display applications.
Nearly all plastics are electrical insulators, but one class of plastics is different. These are conjugated polymers, whose discovery was celebrated with the award of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Ifor D. W. Samuel is at the Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK.
e-mail: Email: idws@st-andrews.ac.uk
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