Crazy About Transistor Crystals

by Eugenie Samuel Reich New Scientist, 19 Mar 2005 Vitaly Podzorov's desk is decked with transparent boxes containing brightly coloured crystals hovering on hair-fine silver wires. Each is a transistor, similar to the ones that switch current in the circuits of every computer. he difference is that they are not made of silicon but organic materials -- crystals of hydrocarbons, in fact. And their path from idea to reality could not be stranger. Read the article