LED paper thickness

Speaking of LEDs, they usually imagine such a small plastic piece. It is possible that soon the diodes will look different - like a paper emitting light. Or cloth.

Swedish scientists published a paper in which they described how they managed to grow several LEDs on the surface of a sheet of paper. Perhaps the day is near when the sources of lighting in your room will be, say, curtains.
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All this is made possible through the use of zinc oxide nanorods, which are applied to a thin layer of polydioctylfluorene (a conductive polymer).

Here is how Magnus Wilander, one of the scientists, describes the discovery:

- This is generally the first time in history when someone managed to create a working circuit of electronic and photonic inorganic semiconductors directly on paper, using chemical methods.

Patent application has already been filed.

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