ORGANIC MICROPROCESSOR ON PLASTIC FOIL

ABSTRACT

40 years after the first silicon microprocessors, an 8-bit microprocessor made from plastic electronic technology directly fabricated on flexible plastic foil is demonstrated. The opera tion speed is currently limited to 40 instructions per second, the power consumption is as low as 100W.The organic microprocessor is implemented as two different foils an arithmetic and logic unit and an instruction foil. The ALU-foil operates at a supply of 10V and a back-gate voltage of 50V. The microprocessor can execute user defined programs with the help of instruction foil which generates sequence of appropriate instructions.The near transparency, mechanical flexibility and low power consumption of the processor are attractive features for integration on everyday objects where it could be programmed as, amongst other things, a calculator, timer or game controller.

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