Plastic semiconductors are spawning a new breed of electronic devices that are cheap to make, lightweight, and flexible. The microscopic details of how electric charges move through transistors and other devices made of such materials have remained obscure, however.
RED HOT. This prototype transistor on a pure crystal of the plastic semiconductor rubrene incorporates innovations expected to speed development of plastic electronics.
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