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Commercialization of Organic Electronics
MRS Bulletin | July 2008


Organic electronics is moving into the commercial phase. Prototypes based on organic transistors fabricated from solution have recently emerged on the market. This issue of MRS Bulletin addresses important advances in semiconductor design and device fabrication techniques, and discusses some of the technical challenges moving beyond prototypes and first generation products.

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Theory of Large-Scale Plastic Deformation in Amorphous Materials: A Progress Report
James S. Langer
From MRS Proceedings Volume 1048E

Abstract: The goal of recent shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theories has been to construct a phenomenological description of amorphous plasticity that is based on physical principles and molecular models, and yet is simple enough to be useful in predicting the performance of real materials. In reporting progress toward this goal, I focus on the dynamic role played by the effective disorder temperature (a generalization of the free-volume) in controlling relaxation rates and predicting shear-banding instabilities.

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