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To: richard surckla who wrote (26100)	7/31/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

>" organic" chip Please point me in the right direction. guiltlessgourmet.com Red Corn regards don

To: richard surckla who wrote (26100)	7/31/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Polymer-based semiconductors have been known for at least a decade. Unfortunately, up to this point, they had been lingering at the research stage. I was personally involved in some project with a multi-national chemical company a number of years ago. Try a search for "non-linear optics". (Not guaranteeing you would get valid results, though, since it's been some time since I looked into this area). Ibexx

To: richard surckla who wrote (26100)	7/31/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

richard, You might use the SI link to news for HP to find something. There was an article in the San Jose Mercury News a couple of weeks ago about it. They've been working in conjunction with UCLA on developing molecular technology, and if I remember correctly, they got a DNA-like molecule to do some multiplication or addition. The technology is still at least 10 years away from being commercially viable, they claim. The thing I found interesting about the article was that, because the molecules don't develop 100% correctly (darn those molecules! <G>) they (or someone else) recently developed a 1,000,000 gate "computing engine" in which about 200,000 of the gates were flawed, and the system was able to detect the flawed gates and bypass them so that it worked correctly. The development of a self-diagnosing system would be key for developing molecular technology, I believe. Dave