Chinese scientists have found a kind of inorganic¹ semiconductor², which has good ductility³ and flexibility⁴ at room temperature, which may be used in flexible electronics.

 

中国科学家发现一种无机半导体材料，这种材料在室温下拥有良好的韧性和弹性，可能被应用于柔性电子领域。
 

 

Fulfilled by researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics⁵, the harvest was published in "Nature Materials" in April.

 

Ductility is common in metals while it is rarely observed in inorganic semiconductors⁶, especially at room temperature. Most semiconductor materials are brittle⁷ and cannot bend, pull or compress.

 

The newly-discovered semiconductor a-Ag2S is ductile⁸ like metal and easily changes shape instead of breaking under outer deformation⁹, according to the research.

 

The material is expected to be applied¹⁰ in flexible electronic technologies such as wearable devices.

 

For the application of flexible electronics, the research team also produced a thin film made of a-Ag2S and found that it had great deformability and good electrical properties.

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