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Paper claims that the innovation of this category of materials is about manufacturability. Organic TEMs can be spray-on thin films and foams filled with cheap
by mapt 1y ago
Paper claims that the innovation of this category of materials is about manufacturability. Organic TEMs can be spray-on thin films and foams filled with cheap bulk powders, rather than growing inorganic planar semiconductors; The downsides have been that they're fragile and they aren't very good (by a factor of ~500 worse than inorganic semiconductor TEMs). They report on making them 5x better performance (so only 100x worse), and dramatically less fragile.
Presumably, this would have very different applications.
- Gravityloss 1y agoI think the idea is to use it for extremely low power "ambient computing" and for example wearables where the human provides the heat source (and which need to be flexible).