Route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials

Engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting films made from a host of exotic materials other than silicon. To demonstrate their technique, the researchers fabricated flexible films made from gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, and lithium fluoride – materials that exhibit better performance than silicon but until now have been prohibitively expensive to produce in functional devices.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181008114602.htm

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