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

This next wave has various parts to it. At its simplest, low-cost TFTs could help bring existing functionality to new - and more cost sensitive -- markets. For example, low-cost TFTs could help bring higher resolution displays to handheld/cell phone markets via a new generation of active matrix LCD and OLED displays. Roll-up displays based on flexible TFT arrays would enable handheld users to utilize larger displays. Low-cost TFTs would enable the RFID concept to be extended from palettes to individual items and for new electronic capabilities to be provided in games, smartcards, and other disposables. Longer term TFTs would become a key component in making “pervasive computing;” a trend that the computer, consumer electronics and semiconductor industries are doing much to promote.