Jan 2nd - A New Technology for Semiconductor Film Production on Highly Liquid-repellent Surfaces

A research group from  the Flexible Electronics Research Center  and the Electronics and Photonics
Research Institute of AIST have developed a manufacturing technology for highly uniform thin films of organic polymer semiconductors without material losses by applying the semiconductor solution on a highly hydrophobic surface that strongly repels the solution.

The technology allows simple production of high performance thin-film transistors (TFTs) that are useful building blocks for information terminal devices such as electronic papers.  The details of this study will be published online in Nature Communications.

(AIST press release, 31 October 2012)