Researchers at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory have successfully fabricated transistors and diodes out of submicroscopically thin films of the organic polyacetylene compound of carbon and hydrogen, according to a report in the current edition of Nature. The devices are still too big and two slow – switching in 1 microsecond – to be practicable yet, […]
Researchers at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory have successfully fabricated transistors and diodes out of submicroscopically thin films of the organic polyacetylene compound of carbon and hydrogen, according to a report in the current edition of Nature. The devices are still too big and two slow – switching in 1 microsecond – to be practicable yet, but the material was found to change colour according to the voltage applied, suggesting that the devices might be applicable to opto electronic telephone switching applications.
