References & Sources

Plastic reaches to meet silicon guide

A new method that may prove useful for creating plastic electronic circuits entices a melted polymer to grow up to a silicon template, copying the template’s micrometer-scale bumps and grooves in a plastic mirror image.

References:

Chou, S.Y., L. Zhuang, and L. Guo. 1999. Lithographically induced self-construction of polymer microstructures or resistless patterning. Applied Physics Letters 75(Aug. 16):1004.

Further Readings:

Wu, C. 1997. Electric diode tunes in to plastic. Science News 152(Dec. 20&27):388.

Sources:

Stephen Y. Chou
Princeton University
Department of Electrical Engineering
NanoStructure Laboratory
Princeton, NJ 08544

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 12, September 18, 1999, p. 189. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.