Plastic diodes to shape future circuits.(IN THE NEWS: Electronics)

From: Machine Design | Date: January 12, 2006 | Copyright information

Most plastics don't conduct electricity, though that hasn't stopped researchers from trying to build plastic computer chips. Some groups have coaxed modest numbers of electrons through plastics using quantum mechanical effects, but only by painstakingly manipulating individual molecules at cryogenic temperatures.

But a group of Ohio State University researchers have gotten around the problems of working with single molecules and cryofluids. They layer plastic atop conven...

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