Photonic sintering process of ink-jet printed conductive microstructures

In this paper the influence of photonic sintering process parameters on the resistance of ink-jet printed structures were examined. The sintering process was performed by delivering to samples an energy in the form of light pulses (1200 J per pulse). There was specified the factors which would have the most significant influence on the results (resistance of sintered structure) such as: distance between lamp and sample, number of pulses, temperature of substrate and substrate material. To evaluate the influence of this factors the design of the experiment technique (DoE) and Analysis of Variance for the results (ANOVA) were used.