Printed Electronics Gets More Ambitious

Different chemistry

Some developers are progressing organic layers while others are advancing inorganic layers, mainly inorganic compounds. Put at its simplest, this is a trade-off between it being easy to print organic materials such as polymers and oligomer precursors but the properties of the resulting devices are often poor. On the other hand it is difficult to print inorganic materials but their properties are often much better. However, it will not be simply a matter of which wins. There are many very different needs to be satisfied and many of the most promising recent devices are based on composites and mixtures of inorganic and organic materials, including quantum dots and DSSC. They are neither organic nor inorganic. They are both.