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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (44990)	4/3/2001 8:06:02 PM
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Motorola, Dow, Xerox pursue organic semiconductors in R&D project Semiconductor Business News (04/03/01 15:03 p.m. EST) SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--Motorola Inc. today (April 3) announced its research lab has received a $7.85 million government grant to develop novel organic electronic materials and processing technologies for ASIC chips and liquid crystal displays (LCDs). The U.S. grant is being provided to Motorola Labs, which is teamed in the four-year project with The Dow Chemical Co. and Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The R&D team is targeting technologies that promise to greatly reduce the cost of manufacturing active-matrix LCDs, smart-card devices, and automotive integrated circuits. According to Motorola, new organic materials will be developed for relatively inexpensive printing technologies that could replace today's semiconductor lithography processes and tools. The project will evaluate a variety of organic and hybrid semiconductor materials, along with both mature and experimental printing methods. The research team said it intends to develop: Novel polymeric semiconductors with acceptable electronic and physical properties; Rapid and fine-featured large-area printing techniques to deposit the material; and, Device packaging for robust and reliable use. Motorola said these new devices will be thin-film transistors, similar to today's light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Researchers plan to use polymers because they offer a number of benefits, including low-cost processing steps. Motorola noted that the current understanding of polymeric semiconductors and device operation is limited. In addition to developing a printable polymer with the requisite conductivity and purity, researchers plan to pursue high-volume cost targets. Once the technology is developed, prototype systems will be fabricated in the R&D project.