Electronics
| Emerging technology | Status | Potentially marginalized technologies | Potential applications | Related articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic nose | Research, commercialization | X-ray and MRI scans for detecting cancer | Detecting spoiled food, chemical weapons and cancer | |
| E-textiles | Research, diffusion | |||
| Flexible electronics | Research, development, some prototypes | Flexible and folding electronic devices (such as smartphones), Flexible solar cells which are lightweight, can be rolled up for launch, and are easily deployable | Nokia Morph, Flexible organic light-emitting diode | |
| Memristor | Working prototype | Some current integrated circuits, many other electronics devices | Smaller, faster, lower power consuming storage, analogue electronics, Artificial intelligence | |
| Spintronics | Working prototypes | Mechanical magnetic hard disk drives | Data storage | MRAM |
| Thermal copper pillar bump | Working prototypes in discrete devices | Conventional thermal systems, heat sinks, bulk thermoelectrics | Electric circuit cooling; micro-fluidic actuators; small-device thermoelectric power generation (see thermoelectric generator) | Ultra high definition holographic disc, Metal–insulator transition |
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