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- Matic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23I guess posting screenshots of the invisible circuit would be pointless
- bloqmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Allow me to help you. Stick your arm out in front of you. Take your fingers and hold them few inches apart. Enjoy your personal screenshot of the transparent circuit.
- timewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/APPLAB-ft/vol_86/iss_1/013503_1.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6789938/ - Drumrboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6if you could make these display an image, and stack hundreds on top of each other, you could get a 3D display :)
- trevorsm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I've got a bunch of transparent computers for sale. They're very quiet and lightweight. In fact, you can't even see them. Only $10,000.
- splatnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5transparent != invisible
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You, sir, had better patent that QUICK, before NTP and Forgent find out.
That's one EXTREMELY sexy concept. (Not just for pr0n either. Imagine a Metal Gear Solid or one of those ABAGames [ http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html ] in REAL 3D.) - dgath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Here's a picture of it...
Pretty sweet eh? - krux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i've seen transparent calculators in the past, how is this new?
- aroedl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There is a material called ALON:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Or maybe the schematic, or layout.
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7@Matic, Thorpe
F*ing morons. think about what you post before you post it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcure
LEARN what a screenshot is before you start calling everything you see a screenshot. - Timsher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I saw "Researchers create worlds first transparent..." in my RSS feed and was hoping it was aluminum :)
A good read, I hope this technology makes it's way into our homes before to long. - beavioso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well you could take a picture of the die. Possibly use an electron scanning microscope to see one particular circuit within the whole thing.
Wikipedia Cpu - 4th picture down... it's a picture of the die on a 80486 cpu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit - michaelbuddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm pretty sure they could post a picture of it. Transparency doesn't necessarily mean invisible.
Also I'm getting pretty tired of lame ass news articles that aren't posting pictures of things. Some unintelligible science writer goes on and on about features of things when they could cut a "thousand" words just by showing it. Not just this, but plenty of gadgets and tools have articles and reviews with no pics. Lame. No digg because article lacks any photo with caption. - JamesGlover, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Its encouraging that they seem to think that the circuits will be 'cheap' as this will naturaly help to drive innovation. Or course it does mean that we'll also see a lot of tat along with that as well, but if it means we wont see the same delays which are happening with E-paper then it will only be a good thing.
- Scrud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another Oregon State University invention: The maraschino cherry.
What that has to do with this article: almost nothing. - rjnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The interesting things are getting the interconnect to be transparent and reliable. That and building on a cheap substrate.
Silicon on Sapphire chips (available in the 70's) were transparent, except for the interconnect. They were anything but cheap. Sure the sapphire was synthetic and not noticeably more expensive than wafer purity silicon, but growing a usable layer of silicon onto the sapphire was the hard and expensive part.
To get the interconnect transparent you just have to use a very thin layer, prefferably from gold. Having made the stuff thin, you had to use pretty wide traces, as hard to ensure continuity when it was thin in both thickness and width. Of course you don't want to get any gold onto your chip while you still have any bake cycles left, it does evil things to your transistor properties.
Why SOS? The capacitance of the substrate wasn't an issue with the saphire substrate. So your chips ran faster. And there were imaging chips that used transmision thru the substrate. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am just glad that "amorphous heavy-metal cation multi-component oxides" are finally getting the recognition they deserve. I just hope the morphous light plastic anion single component phthalates don't get jealous.
Eventually, they will build a transparent TV--.but then some broadcaster will have to fight some morons who already claim to own the name 'clear channel' --for a shady business that is anything but 'clear!'
The bastards! - Slackwise, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5No offense, but how do you post a "screenshot" of a circuit anyways? A picture of the circuit on a computer screen? This is aside from the fact that it's "transparent."
:/ - Spastastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1quote from msnbc article:
Embedded in this glass substrate are dozens of patterns created with an early version of the new material. Because the stuff is transparent, you see only the quarter underneath.
Stuff? the stuff? Sounds so...unjournalistic like. - obscurelyfamous, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Here's a thought-- anyone ever consider READING the tech articles instead of mindlessly searching for a picture?
This is a great step toward transparent displays in electronics (such as various HUD applications.) Krux, I hope that was a joke. - gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Expect game systems to get harder to hack and homebrew stuff for, too. If one can't see the transparent circuits, and doesn't know another way to attack...
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Me want picture!
- ashchap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0All TFTs have a transparent layer of transistors over the liquid crystal layer, which are in a thin film - hence Thin Film Transistor.
Maybe this is some advance that means more complex circuits can be manufactured... - gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Because the stuff is transparent, you see only the quarter underneath."
--and he calls himself a SENIOR WRITER for LiveScience? WTF?
I love the circuit though. Can't wait for the first clear PC (or Mac). I can barely imagine seeing the fans whirring and the drive discs (and disks) spinning as I check e-mail, play games, and type the occasional essay. - Kelpesh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Whats new about Isolinear Chips? Mr O'Brien, pop a panel and show them.
- timewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4http://digg.com/science/World_s_First_Transparent_Integrated_Circuit_Created
- timbudtwo, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1no picture of said makes this pointless...
- Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4No screenshot, no dig.
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