Brunswick, Germany (ots)

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The research team led by Professor Dr Bertram Batlogg (ETH
Zurich), with Dr Christian Kloc and Dr Jan Hendrik Schön (both Bell
Labs, Lucent Technologies, New Jersey/USA) has received the Brunswick
Award with prize money of DEM 100,000. The team has been honoured for
developing highly innovative electronic and optoelectronic components
of organic material.

By developing a number of new electronic components, Professor
Batlogg and his partners have paved the way for the completion of
current silicon-semiconductor technology. As a result, brand-new
technical and economic application options are now available to the
economy and research. The range includes items in daily use, such as
'intelligent labels' and 'plastic solar cells' and, at the highest
level of physics, the production of new 'superconductors' required as
basic components for 'quantum computers' as well as thin sheets of
film that can be rolled up and fixed to the wall as screens. Compared
with silicon, the manufacture of the basic organic substance is much
simpler and, above all, considerably cheaper.

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