Tokyo Univ : Organic semiconductor sheet type scanner : No mechanical parts are required
The University of Tokyo: Quantum Phase Electronics Research Center
The research team succeeded in making a sheet-type scanner using organic semiconductors.
This new image scanner:
No mechanically moving parts are required.
Therefore, it is very light and thin.
It is made on plastic film and can be bent.
Application fields:
It’s a mobile-friendly scanner that you can carry around in your pocket.
It fits perfectly on bent book pages and scans images.
There is no need to break up a book, even for valuable old documents.
The level of wine can be scanned without removing the bottle.
Series of research results
Presented the basic image acquisition part at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2004, San Francisco, CA, December 13-15, 2004).
Presented a high-speed, low-power organic circuit method at the 2005 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2005, San Francisco, CA, February 6-10, 2005).
The University of Tokyo