Disposable Chips

Disposable Chips

Jul 1, 1999 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:41 AM

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While other electronics engineers were knocking themselves silly to make better silicon chips, Dago de Leeuw decided to work with a different material: plastic. Although people have known for years that some polymer plastics are good at conducting electricity, it took de Leeuw and his team at Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands to figure out how to transform them into integrated circuits.

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