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Semiconductors and electronics

Semiconductors and electronics

The future is flexible

08 Jan 2019
Taken from the January 2019 issue of Physics World.

Smartphones, tablets and laptops are stacked with computing power, but they’re mostly rigid, inflexible objects. Semiconductors that have been shrunk from 3D to 2D could, however, lead to flexible, wearable electronic devices, as Nicola Townsend and Iddo Amit explain

Flexible electronics on skin
(Courtesy: Professor John Rogers, University of Illinois/Science Photo Library)
When Allied soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk during the Second World War, the British militaryâ€

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