Sunday, 21 October 2012

An environmentally friendly future: Organic Electronics


Organic technology

As the road of technology continues to improve, the future of technology will allow for more innovation and better integration of technology into the modern world.  I believe in the future the conventional basis of technology Silicon will be replaced by more efficient and energy productive materials such as organic materials.

Organic materials are essentially made up of polymers and compounds consisting of varying levels of conductivity.  These usually include carbon based compounds.  With the continued interest in organic electronics, consumers will soon find the price of electronics and computing technologies rapid going down.
The advantage of organic materials over the conventional silicon materials is that it is far more efficient and inexpensive to manufacture. With the conventional silicon, temperatures and other manufacturing processes require expensive plants, sensitive equipment, and advanced knowledge.

Organic materials are environmentally friendly, can be mass produced inexpensively, can be sustained and recycled of properly and can be molded and offer flexible shapes of production. Organic materials can produce parts such as transistors, PCB, processors and other parts by electronic ink or classic printing methods.   


Future of Technology: Organic electronics

Organic electronics will offer a bright, energy efficient and environmentally friendly future.  As of present prototype organic OLED displays have been developed by electronics companies such as Samsung and LG.  Prototypes demonstrated by these companies have gained great interest in the technology world and look promising for consumers alike.   With the advancement of organic electronics the possibilities of the electronics world are endless. In the near future, electronics, computers and all forms of technology can be made very inexpensive and reliable through printing presses. 

For example, organic materials can allow for solar cells to be made transparent to serve as a window and a solar panel at once.  In general, devices that we have today as our televisions, computers, and smart phones can be easily made by printing processes and would be very cost and energy efficient.   

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