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Plastic printer: This roll-to-roll printer can make simple circuits for devices like RFIDs on sheets of plastic. Now Applied Materials is developing a roll-to-roll printer to make flexible displays.
Credit: Applied Materials
Applied Materials is developing a process that could print flexible transistor arrays that perform just as well as those on rigid substrates.
Plastic printer: This roll-to-roll printer can make simple circuits for devices like RFIDs on sheets of plastic. Now Applied Materials is developing a roll-to-roll printer to make flexible displays.
Credit: Applied Materials
Applied Materials is developing a machine that performs chemical vapor deposition on a range of substrates, from films of stainless steel to the plastics being used by Hewlett-Packard and Phicot. The leader of research on the project, Neil Morrison, says the tool can produce transistor arrays that are “good enough for an e-book reader.” The company is testing the roll-to-roll machine with customers it won’t disclose, and says it expects to begin selling the equipment to manufacturers in three to five years.
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