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Reports on efforts to create electronic paper. How the paper would combine the data-handling power of electronics with the flexibility and convenience of paper; Lucent and E Ink Corp's development of E-paper using an inexpensive printing technique; Use of a technique called microcontact printing to create arrays of transistors that control the E-papers pixels.

Reports on the licensing of Lucent Technologies' plastic transistor technology to E Ink Corp. Details of the companies' collaboration on the development of 'electronic paper'; Features of the planned plastic electronic displays, whose properties are similar to those of semiconductors formed on silicon chips; Potential industrial applications for the technology.