Next Chips: Organic Transistors and Memories and the Applications They Will Enable

To summarize then OTFTs represent a new kind of electronic device that fits well with the direction that the semiconductor, electronics and display industries hope to take their products in the next decade or so. On the face of it then, this is a huge opportunity; an opportunity to be in on something as big as the creation of the transistor or the microprocessor. However, looking just beneath the surface exposes the fact that performance, manufacturing and economic issues will have to be addressed before anything like that potential can be addressed. And they will have to be addressed quickly, because other ways of creating TFTs are beginning to emerge. Indeed, important voices have been raised in support of an alternative future in which TOP electronics will ultimately progress using inorganic devices made from printed silicon, carbon nanotubes, etc. rather than OTFTs.