Does the Future of Computing Lie in Plastic?
With computers evolving at such a rapid rate, it can be quite difficult to stay on top of what’s new and happening in the field. One day it’s cloud computing, the next it’s quantum. The latest news from Silicon Valley is that silicon might just be on its way out, as plastic muscles in on the action. As reported on ScienceDaily.com, July’s edition of Physics World includes a feature on developments in the field of plastic-based transistors and organic light-emitting displays by three prominent Israeli researchers. Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University, and Rafi Shikler from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ben Gurion University, have made some exciting discoveries about plastic electronics that could completely change the face of laptops as we know them. As far back as the 1970s, it was discovered that not all plastics are electricity insulators, but that some do in fact conduct electricity. It’s only now
