A team in Cambridge has created a plastic electronic circuit with the architecture and functionality of a CMOS silicon chip.
The printed circuit is believed to be the fastest-operating and lowest-power plastic logic oscillator created to date.
The full commercial potential of plastic electronic circuits has been hampered by their lower speed and by the requirement of high supply voltage (of the order of 100V), which means that they are unable to compete with conventional silicon-based electronics especially in off-the-grid applications, which are the most attractive for this technology.
via the engineer
April 18, 2012
