Comments on: Inkjet printers start cranking out microchips

Spray-on electronics can be mass manufactured, and a new factory in Austria is doing just that.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

By the time us lowly consumers are printing HPU's

Yes by the Time us consumers are printing off our own hive processing units for a gazillion and one aplications that use hybrid coputer on cip technology. Should be about the same time these printing methods are made to be advanced enough to work with multiple meterials as to form coolent ststems and parts of 3d quantium circuit arrays so for now stick to that wine testing.
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This probably is a good investment area to say the least.
Alongside Mirror light generating array in places like africa for new recycling and industrial plants. Hey theres another good investment and both of them funny enough probably relate to each other.

UM what to do with the recycled pelets.

[inboundskier]

They are not really using inkjet printers - Organic sprayer?

They make it sound like they went down to the local store and bought an Epson and are doing this. They are not, they are using specialized machines that we can't buy. They made them. MIT explained how they did it, and they said it was a total pain using anything besides regular inkjet printing inks, like conductive liquid compounds that conduct electricity. I wish these guys would be more specific (and not use the word "ink"), like say "we are using organic compounds, which are not inks, and spraying them through 128 computer controlled nozzels, on a substrate prepared to accept organic compounds. We call it the organic sprayer....." Then everyone can get that confused with pesticide applications, until they get really specific.

[bioelectrospec]

Prohibitively expensive Bioident samples

Dear Colleagues,
Bioident misled me at the Biodetection 2007 conference in Atlanta claiming that their printed organic photodiodes cost less than a dollar per 2-D array of a dozen or two dozens of photodiodes. For our testing purposes I requested a sample of an array or even a single photodiode, whichever was already available at Bioident. It took from Mr. Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of Bioident, couple of months to impose on me his extremely intricate conditions for receiving a sample from Bioident. Eventually, after we made all the arrangements for testing and incurred significant cost, Mr. Bokhari proposed that we pay $10,000.00 for his single photodiode sample. Yes, you read it right: Ten Thousand US Dollars! One could buy thousands of highest quality inorganic photodetectors for the price of single Bioident sample! Thus, do not rush to change your CMOS circuits for "inexpensive?!" printed s/c; wait until competitors edge Bioident out.
Dr. Alexander Asanov, President of TIRF Technologies.