Internal Combustion Used to Make Metal Oxide Thin-Film Electronics

As amorphous silicon electronics reach their physical limits, researchers at Northwestern University have figured out a way to make amorphous oxides cheaply and reliably. Amorphous oxides are faster than amorphous silicon and also easier to use in devices such as roll-up displays. The researchers found that adding a chemical such as urea to the thin-film metal-oxide solution could result in thin films capable of electron mobilities 10 times that of amorphous silicon.

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