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A diverse printed future

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An approach that entails printing compound-semiconductor ribbons on a silicon substrate offers the means to build nanoscale transistors that can be switched on and off much more effectively than their bulk analogues. See Letter page 286

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Figure 1: Heterogeneous electronics by printing.

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  1. John A. Rogers is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. jrogers@illinois.edu,

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Rogers, J. A diverse printed future. Nature 468, 177–178 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468177a

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