A Cornell University group is working on flexible, thin computers: a layer of polymer-based transistors bonded to a sheet of silicon. Effectively a computer and its screen in a single sheet, "as large as meters on a side." The article seems to think this makes them "disposable." The difficulty, and what their research grant is for, is bonding the polymer and silicon layers together.
Thin, flexible computers and displays
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