Transparent Materials Make Advances

摘要

Researchers at Oregon State University have made significant advances in the emerging science of transparent electronics, creating transparent "p-type" semiconductors that have more than 200 times the conductivity of the best materials available for that purpose a few years ago. This basic research is opening the door to new types of electronic circuits that, when deposited onto glass, are literally invisible. The studies are so cutting edge that the products which could emerge from them haven't yet been invented, although they may find applications in everything from flat-panel displays to automobiles or invisible circuits on visors."We think these basic advances are very important and are nearing the stage of commercial usefulness," says Arthur Sleight, an OSU professor of chemistry who presented the latest findings today at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. The research was done in collaboration with principal investigator Janet Tate, an OSU associate professor of physics. Our engineers 'will now take some of these findings and see what type of devices could be created from the new materials," Sleight says. "Transparent electronics is an important new field of technology and should become a growing industry."