Abstract
Inkjet printing (IJP) is a highly versatile and useful tool for product development, prototyping, and even small-scale manufacturing in the printed electronics industry. This chapter discusses a number of printed electronic (PE) applications. PE applications make use of inkjet-printed electrically conductive structures. At first sight, IJP might not seem the most obvious method for the manufacturing of these structures and as a result, it is rather new for PE manufacturing. The potential of IJP for PE applications has been demonstrated recently in a variety of academic and industrial research laboratories. These examples are, however, usually achieved on a sheet-to-sheet (S2 S) basis and only on a small scale. Various types of functional electronic materials can be processed into functional structures and devices by IJP. Examples include conductive metallic inks, organic semiconductors, insulators, and many others.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Industrial Inkjet Printing |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Full System Approach |
| Editors | Werner Zapka |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Chapter | 35 |
| Pages | 599-616 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Volume | 2-2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783527687169 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783527338320 |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 May 2017 |
Keywords
- Electrically conductive structures
- Functional electronic materials
- Inkjet printing
- Printed electronic application development
- Printed electronics industry