Design and tailoring of inks for inkjet patterning of metal oxides.

ABSTRACT: Inkjet printing has become a promising, efficient, inexpensive, scalable technique for materials deposition, mask-less and digital patterning in many device applications. Meanwhile, the ink preparation remains a challenge especially for printing functional oxide materials. Based on the principles of inkjet printing (especially relevant for piezoelectric drop-on-demand inkjet printer) and the process of the conversion of liquid ink into solid thin films of oxide materials, we present two approaches to the design and tailoring of inks: (i) oxide particle suspensions (e.g. SiO₂, TiO₂, Fe₃O₄) and (ii) metal-acetates precursor solutions for directly printing oxide thin films (e.g. ZnO, MgO, ITO and so forth). The solution inks are stable and produce t

SUBMITTER: Fang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7211876 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature