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Rolling out organic electronics

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Commercialization of organic electronics has been limited by the complex processing required to make large-scale devices from single crystals. A new approach exploiting composite phase behaviour facilitates the manufacture of crystalline films from solution for high-quality devices.

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Figure 1: Drilling down a flexible organic electronic display illustrates the enabling contribution of the molecular engineered semiconductor.

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Mcculloch, I. Rolling out organic electronics. Nature Mater 4, 583–584 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1443

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