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

Challenges to OTFTs
All this is obviously encouraging to those people - and there are now quite a few of them - who believe that one day organic electronics will one day be as big a business as the silicon electronics business is now. We think their judgments to be a bit premature. While the number of firms and research groups that are involved with developing OTFTs are impressive, there is no proof yet that the real addressable markets for these devices is such that a business can be built around them. In fact, it is probably fair to say that OTFT technology has already taken a couple of steps back from where the optimists thought it might be a couple of years back.