Opening up the potential of thin-film electronics for flexible chip design

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NEW RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES FEASIBILITY OF ’FOUNDRY’ MODEL FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS

The group developed the 6502 chip on a wafer ( right ) and on a plate ( middle )
The group developed the 6502 chip on a wafer (right ) and on a plate (middle ). |  © KU Leuven - imec

The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large ’semiconductor fabrication plants’ or ’foundries’. New research by KU Leuven and imec shows that this ’foundry’ model can also be applied to the field of flexible, thin-film electronics. Adopting this approach would give innovation in the field a huge boost.

Silicon semiconductors have become the ’oil’ of the computer age, which was also demonstrated recently by the chip shortage crisis. However, one of the disadvantages of conventional silicon chips is that they’re not mechanically flexible. ...

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