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ELI5: Why is sillicone used in electronics over organic semiconductors?
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It took me a second there because silicone is used in electronics to hold components in place against vibrations. However you do not make semiconductors out of silicone but rather silicon. A completely different thing. Perhaps the biggest issue with organic semiconductors is that we can not produce them small enough. Not only is the manufacturing of these semiconductors not reliable enough due to the randomness of the materials but the molecules themselves are rather big compared to accuracy of the high end silicon foundries. This means that you are stuck with the transistor denisty you had 10-20 years ago and it is much harder to progress from there. This does not matter that much in LEDs and even power transistors because in these applications you have one big semiconductor rather then billions of small ones.