Inkjet printing as a deposition and patterning tool for polymers and inorganic particles
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- 26 February 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Soft Matter
- Vol. 4 (4), 703-713
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b711984d
Abstract
Inkjet printing is an attractive patterning technology, which has become increasingly accepted for a variety of industrial and scientific applications. This review primarily presents an overview of the investigations that have been conducted since 2003 into inkjet-printing polymers or metal-containing inks and mentions related activities. The first section discusses the droplet-formation process in piezoelectric drop-on-demand printheads and the physical properties that affect droplet formation and the resolution of inkjet-printed features. The second section deals with the issues that arise from printing polymers, such as printability and the output characteristics of devices made by this route. Finally, the challenges and achievements attached to inkjet printing metal-containing inks are discussed before concluding with a few remarks about the future of the field.Keywords
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