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Huh. The site isn't completely clear; could this sort of technology cheaply print custom silicon layers, like ICs and some types of components? If so, that woul

Huh. The site isn't completely clear; could this sort of technology cheaply print custom silicon layers, like ICs and some types of components? If so, that would be amazing. If I could print a to-spec FET, a 555 die, some BJTs, a handful of film resistors to +/- 1%... Well baby, you got yourself a stew!

Sanddancer 9y ago
I'm thinking so, given they say that they can print displays and memory. That suggests that they can do a pretty decent number of semiconductors, which indeed could be rather useful.
TD-Linux 9y ago
Most "printed" electronics mean either organic semiconductors, which generally have poor performance but are very cheap to print and flexible. This company also offers polysilicon, which is generally more expensive but is higher performance - it's used for TFT displays, for example. Both of these are usually patterned, so it's more for volume production that one-off like 3d printing. I am not actually sure what the benefits of sheet-based logic are - RFID is obvious, but existing vendors prefer tiny, inflexible monocrystalline silicon dies instead. Are the Thinfilm RFID tags cheaper?
rwmj 9y ago
ARM demoed some printed SoCs (based on Cortex M0) a while back: https://semiaccurate.com/2015/11/18/arm-charts-path-printed-plastic-chips/ https://semiaccurate.com/2015/11/18/arm-charts-path-printed-... The process is described here: http://www.molecularimprints.com/technology-overview/j-fil-overview http://www.molecularimprints.com/technology-overview/j-fil-o...