{"id":6047,"date":"2012-09-11T00:54:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2012-09-11T00:54:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T05:54:38","slug":"using-ultraviolet-light-to-fabricate-thin-flexible-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6047","title":{"rendered":"Using ultraviolet light to fabricate thin flexible electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new method for making metal oxide devices at much lower temperatures uses ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. Yong-Hoon Kim and colleagues used UV light to chemically activate metal particles in a chemical solution; the new metal oxide molecules condensed out of the solution, forming a thin semiconducting film. The process can be performed at room temperature\u2014far lower than the 350\u00b0 temperatures typical of metal oxide fabrication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2012\/09\/using-ultraviolet-light-to-fabricate-thin-flexible-electronics\/\">Using ultraviolet light to fabricate thin flexible electronics | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The high temperatures are the problem. 350\u00b0C is above the melting point of most flexible, transparent substances (e.g. plastics), and real electronic devices need a substrate to give them shape. It doesn&#8217;t matter how thin or transparent metal oxide devices are if they must be deposited on thick, opaque, rigid materials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new method for making metal oxide devices at much lower temperatures uses ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. Yong-Hoon Kim and colleagues used UV light to chemically activate metal particles in a chemical solution; the new metal oxide molecules condensed out of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[100,647],"class_list":["post-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-interesting-research","tag-semiconductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}