US Patent 7956525 - Nanostructured Flex-electronics

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This patent from Nanomix includes some basic claims for nanotube or nanowire transistors formed on a flexible substrate which may be useful to future displays or wide area sensors. Claim 1 reads:

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a flexible substrate;

a film of nanostructures supported by the flexible substrate;

a first conducting element in contact with the film of nanostructures;

a second conducting element in contact with the film of nanostructures wherein the film of nanostructures has essentially semiconducting properties; and

a gate electrode in proximity to the film of nanostructures and not in electrical contact with the film of nanostructures;

wherein the flexible substrate is selected from the group consisting of organic molecules, polymers and porous polymers and the gate electrode comprises a conductive nanostructure network.