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Nature 444, 828-831 (14 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444828a; Published online 13 December 2006

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Semiconductor electronics: Organic crystals at large

Paul Heremans1

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Fabricating large-scale semiconducting surfaces for the flexible screens of the future is a bothersome business. A simple technique for growing single-crystal organic semiconductors brings new vision to the field.

On page 913 of this issue, Zhenan Bao and colleagues (Briseno et al.)1 describe a method for nucleating and growing single-crystal organic semiconductors over electrodes on an arbitrary substrate, and so producing extended arrays of high-performance electronic transistors. Their method represents a step towards practical applications of high-quality, but fragile, single crystals of organic semiconductors, and could show the way to high-performance electronic devices that extend over large and flexible surfaces.

  1. Paul Heremans is at IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B3001 Leuven, Belgium.
    Email: heremans@imec.be

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