Posted 1/7/2024, 6:03:24 PM
Silk Transistors - Highly Responsive and Ultra-Fast Sensors for Next-Gen Hybrid Devices
- Silk woven into transistors creates highly sensitive, ultra-fast sensors that could open doors to many hybrid device applications
- Adding silk makes transistors responsive to the environment and body, granting new abilities
- Successfully produced silk films 3-300nm thick on chips, etched features up to a few microns wide
- Nanoscale silk films react to moisture, allowing transistors to serve as compact, fast, sensitive breath sensors
- Future applications could include blood analysis devices or brain-mimicking circuits for neural networks and AI