Recent advances in flexible electronics have highlighted the importance of high throughput, digital additive microfabrication techniques. In this work, we demonstrate the combination of laser printing and laser sintering of a novel copper nanoparticle ink onto flexible substrates in order to produce oxide free conductive copper patterns in ambient atmospheric conditions. The printed patterns exhibit …
The increasing development of flexible and printed electronics has fueled substantial advancements in selective laser sintering, which has been attracting interest over the past decade. Laser sintering of metal nanoparticle dispersions in particular (from low viscous inks to high viscous pastes) offers significant advantages with respect to more conventional thermal sintering or curing techniques. Apart …
Current technological trends in the field of microelectronics have highlighted the requirement to use cost-effective techniques for the precise deposition of highly resolved features. Laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) meets these requirements and has already been applied for the direct printing of devices and components. However, in order to improve the process’ reproducibility and printing resolution, …
Laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) printing has emerged as a valid digital printing technique capable of transferring and printing a wide range of electronic materials. In this paper, we present for the first time LIFT printing as a method to fabricate silver (Ag) nanoparticle (np) grids for the development of indium tin oxide (ITO)-free inverted PM6:Y6 …
The laser induced forward transfer and sintering of metal nanoparticle inks has been proven a key enabling technology for flexible electronics. Nevertheless, many challenges concerning the conformal processing of non-planar substrates incorporating thermally sensitive layers are yet to be addressed. In this work, we study the behaviour of conformal laser printing of silver nanoparticle inks …
Printed electronics mainly use ink that contains silver with a high weight fraction to print conductive patterns. The synthesis of polyhedral Ag nanoparticles has been previously reported for lab-scale batches with a low weight fraction. The clean synthesis of large batches with homogeneous size and shape and high-volume fraction and conductivity is still challenging. Here, …
