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Organic crystals at large

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.

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Heremans, P. Organic crystals at large. Nature 444, 829–831 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/444828a

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