IN THE movie Superman, the Man of Steel discovers why he was
jettisoned from the doomed planet Krypton by watching a video message stored on
a transparent crystal. Now, more than 20 years on, Japanese scientists are
working on a revolutionary new semiconductor that might one day be turned into
just this kind of gadget.
Computer displays made of the material will have all the image processing and
memory circuits invisibly buried in the screen itself, making them cheaper and
less power hungry than today’s displays.
A team led by Yuji Matsumoto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Titech) in…
