Faster plastic Circuits
Electronic displays on flexible materials have started appearing in limited applications. But the high speed processing power to run them still requires expensive and rigid silicon wafers. If all the components could be built onto the same flexible surface, it could save money, improve for radically new designs.
Researchers have built working circuits now on plastic that are fast enough to make this integration possible. At Sarnoff Corp. in prince on, NJ, and Columbia University, researchers have succeeded in operating circuits at 100 MHZ as much a hundred times faster than previous ones on plastic.
This advance could lead to displays measuring 3 meters or more diagonally can aslo be rolled up and easily transported. Fast transistors on plastic could also lead to portable phased array antennae.
