Flexible Thin-film Electronics
The New York Times is running a story about a new flexible electronics technology.
Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms (the building block, in fact, of the graphite used in pencils) and has properties that make electronics engineers swoon.
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In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films are unaffected by bending or stretching.
This will make product design engineers swoon as well. Flexible electronics could mean the end of the single-plane constraint on PCBs that we have been designing around.
The NYT story is here: With an Ultrathin Film, a Big Step Forward for Flexible Electronics
Originally published in Nature.
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