Miscellanea

More of my personal obsession: plastic electronics. This week, in the 3GSM Conference, in Barcelona, Polymer Vision has presented (some people would say 'again') the Readius, which is a mobile phone with an integrated roll-up display. It seems that this time they are serious, thanks to Plastic Logic....

Another curious thing: for all those of you that love playing sudoku, you now may have a hard competitor: a quantum computer. I don't know how actually serious this is. However, I think that it may be indicative that people is starting to crave for quantum computers. The first step to be able to produce them should be letting people (engineers) how they work. So we need compact models for that. Anyway, I think that we're still a long way from the point where computers designers can actually use this.

More papers

Another paper: Arbitrary Density of States in an Organic Thin-Film Field-Effect Transistor Model and Application to Pentacene Devices. After reading it, I've been left with the feeling that they have done a lot of very good work, but that the results are somehow quite similar to those that one can obtain with the old good RPI model. Probably it is my fault, but it seems too much work to end up with a gds that is not accurate, and with a fitting comparable to RPI. However, I repeat, the work is quite good and the problems I mention are mainly due to problems with the parameter extraction.