A Wet Way to Grow Flexible Electronics
Jan 1, 2008 — Although modern electronics often make people move to a beat, the devices themselves can’t budge because they aren’t flexible. There is considerable interest in putting electronics and optoelectronics onto thin plastic substrates, which would make such devices more flexible, lighter and, potentially, less costly.
To develop a less expensive way to assemble a semiconductor device on plastic, researchers exposed a polymer substrate to UV radiation, creating native and photo-oxidized...