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The Heat is On
Meet the world’s first heat-controlled transistor, created by a team from the Organic Electronics Laboratory at Linkoping University (1). Combining an ionic thermoelectric supercapacitor (ITESC) and an electrolyte-gated transistor, its sensitivity to heat is estimated to be over 100-times greater than traditional thermoelectric sensors. The inventors believe that the technology has potential as an inexpensive sensor in infrared cameras, and even in functional dressings, as a means to monitor the healing process.Credit: Thor Balkhed, Linkoping University, Sweden.
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- D Zhao et al., “Ionic thermoelectric gating organic transistors”, Nat Commun, 8 (2017).
