Block copolymers for high-performance transistors

Future technology ranging from energy to electronic and biomedical applications will become more sophisticated as nanotechnology structures get more complex. EU-funded scientists used a promising approach involving polymer science to produce complex nanoscale structures for use in the semiconducting layers of transistor devices.

Use of polymer materials is an innovative and low-cost technique for producing structures on nanoscale lengths. It involves simple mixing in a proper solution. With block copolymers, one can take two or more monomers that are chemically different and link them together into one chain; the system then will self-assemble at the nanoscale. The ability to self-assemble them in a controlled fashion is the cornerstone of this approach.

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