transistors

"The transistors are not going to work. So all of this is cleaner than hospital operating rooms."

“Once you start looking at that question,” she said, “it gets you to a whole host of things, including the electronics industry and micro-electronics and transistors. So I kind of came to tech through politics.”

Thin-film transistors, which are essential for fabricating flexible electronics, must be made extremely thin and precise.

The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and paves the way for self-assembling more complex electronic devices without relying on existing computer chip manufacturing techniques.

He said this has vast implications for everyday electronics, explaining how information encoded in an electron's properties could be transferred without loss, conceivably resulting in lower-power, highly efficient transistors.