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Semiconductors: Spray-on silicon
Lisa Rosenberg1
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Reports of the death of silicon electronics may well have been exaggerated. A technique that allows the deposition of silicon films from solution could harbinger the era of the inkjet-printed circuit.
On page 783 of this issue, Shimoda et al.1 set forth a radical way of incorporating silicon into that most basic of electronic components, the transistor. Their technique uses a novel liquid precursor of solid silicon to allow the 'printing' of semiconductor films via familiar inkjet technology.
- Lisa Rosenberg is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, PO Box 3065, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3V6, Canada.
Email: lisarose@uvic.ca
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