Inorganic Printed Electronics – The Great Opportunity

In other words, it is complementary to learn how to print a transparent inorganic semiconductor, with up to 400 times the mobility, alongside trying to invent stable, low cost organic semiconductors with device mobility exceeding 10 cm2/Vs, when even improving on one-tenth of that is proving tough.

It becomes a matter of “Shall I make the new inorganics printable?” or “Shall I make organics work better?” Not everyone is jumping the same way. Indeed there is a spectrum of choice as shown in the figure below. Here we are simplifying in calling the right side “organic” because it almost always involves metal conductors, just as the left side often involves organic substrates. The technologies live together – and that is not just an interim stage.