Circuits Made of Ink

Fold-up monitor screens on the way?

[tedster]

Found this goodie in my email this morning from MIT Technology Review.

Xerox claims today that it has mastered a key technique that will make it possible to print transistors at low cost on flexible plastic, using a new semiconducting ink. The advance could speed progress toward devices such as "roll-up" laptop screens or rewritable, fold-up displays for electronic newspapers. ...the new Xerox ink can be inkjet-printed on plastic in the open air, at room temperature. The ink contains nanoparticles that self-assemble at ambient temperatures into stable patterns.

MIT Technology Review [technologyreview.com]

[Macguru]

Major breakthrough!

For some reason, it reminds me of drawing my first printed circuit boards with acid resistant ink, some 30 years ago...

If this technology goes mainstream someday, I can bearly imagine the revolution it will be in developpement. I guess a lot of electronic components will get a lot cheaper in the next year.

[Fiver]

it reminds me of drawing my first printed circuit boards with acid resistant ink, some 30 years ago...

hey I did that only 15 years ago! .. course, I'm sure it was for educational purposes only..

so. will these printed circuits be much smaller than the ones we hand drew with ink over silicon?