Direct ink-jet printing of electric materials with active alignment control

Author

Nagai, Takuharu ; Hoshino, Kazunori ; Matsumoto, Kaname ; Shimoyama, Isao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechano-Informatics, Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1461

Abstract

We have made a system for direct ink-jet printing of electric materials with active alignment control. The system consists of nozzles, image sensors and a target tracking system. Each nozzle is integrated with a microlens for an image sensor and a pair of electrodes to control ink-jets according to the output of the image processing. The performance of the target detecting system was accurate enough to obtain 5-μm-precision. The fabricated nozzles achieved patterning of silver nanoparticles, which can be used as conductive wires after sintering, and the patterning position was successfully controlled by the microelectrodes. The voltage-displacement relationship with R² = 0.99 was measured.

Keywords

ink jet printers; metallisation; microelectrodes; nanoparticles; nanopatterning; nanowires; silver; sintering; 5 micron; Ag; active alignment control; conductive wire; direct ink-jet printing; electric material; image processing; image sensor; microelectrode; microlens; nozzle; patterning position; silver nanoparticles; sintering; target detecting system; target tracking system; voltage-displacement relationship; Control systems; Electrodes; Image processing; Image sensors; Ink jet printing; Lenses; Microoptics; Nanoparticles; Silver; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, 2005. Digest of Technical Papers. TRANSDUCERS '05. The 13th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8994-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1497358

Filename

1497358