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Docter
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 Posted: 03/21/04 - 22:37 Post subject: IBM reports circuitry breakthrough
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http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03180000aaa06be0.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=HIGHTECH&Type=News&Filter=High%20Tech
| Quote: | IBM reports circuitry breakthrough
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (UPI) -- IBM researchers report a scientific breakthrough that could help produce low-cost sheets of circuitry.
In a paper being published in the journal Nature, researchers at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center reported they have found a technique that brings a tenfold improvement to the mobility of electrical charges through a semiconductor film.
Ordinarily, semiconductors are fabricated on rigid disks of silicon and costly tools and chemical processes are used to pack as many transistors as possible on each chip.
But, the Wall Street Journal said, David Mitzi, who led the IBM research team, says the group found a new way to dissolve semiconductor materials in a liquid to create a film with high electrical mobility.
IBM and others had been racing to perfect new manufacturing techniques that can lay down thin films of simpler semiconductors over much larger surfaces. This would include flexible plastics that could be coated with circuitry and churned out in rolls, like newsprint. |
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khrath
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Posted: 03/21/04 - 22:45 Post subject:
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neat I guess
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Paden
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Posted: 03/21/04 - 22:49 Post subject:
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cheap for them but will prolly make the shit more higher price for us
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GruntingCod
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Posted: 03/21/04 - 22:57 Post subject:
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| Paden wrote: | | cheap for them but will prolly make the shit more higher price for us |
Exactly what I was thinking as I read it.
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Kenbin
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Posted: 03/21/04 - 23:12 Post subject:
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| GruntingCod wrote: | | Paden wrote: | | cheap for them but will prolly make the shit more higher price for us |
Exactly what I was thinking as I read it. |
You and Paden are like twins!
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Tolanin
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Posted: 03/21/04 - 23:22 Post subject:
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if its cheaper for them then they would want to make it cheaper for us to sell more things / keep the price the same prolly =/
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Gethy
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Posted: 03/22/04 - 01:22 Post subject:
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| Kenbin wrote: | | GruntingCod wrote: | | Paden wrote: | | cheap for them but will prolly make the shit more higher price for us |
Exactly what I was thinking as I read it. |
You and Paden are like twins! |
Haha.
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Posted: 03/22/04 - 01:25 Post subject:
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One step closer to end game.
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Paden
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Posted: 03/22/04 - 01:29 Post subject:
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I'm gonna build like 1 million of those and take over the world kbarr.
You wanna be my general?
You can have all the dark haired Russians you want!
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