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All-inkjet-printed flexible electronics fabrication on a polymer substrate by low-temperature high-resolution selective laser sintering of metal nanoparticles

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Seung H Ko1, Heng Pan1, Costas P Grigoropoulos1,4, Christine K Luscombe2, Jean M J Fréchet2 and Dimos Poulikakos3

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All-printed electronics is the key technology to ultra-low-cost, large-area electronics. As a critical step in this direction, we demonstrate that laser sintering of inkjet-printed metal nanoparticles enables low-temperature metal deposition as well as high-resolution patterning to overcome the resolution limitation of the current inkjet direct writing processes. To demonstrate this process combined with the implementation of air-stable carboxylate-functionalized polythiophenes, high-resolution organic transistors were fabricated in ambient pressure and room temperature without utilizing any photolithographic steps or requiring a vacuum deposition process. Local thermal control of the laser sintering process could minimize the heat-affected zone and the thermal damage to the substrate and further enhance the resolution of the process. This local nanoparticle deposition and energy coupling enable an environmentally friendly and cost-effective process as well as a low-temperature manufacturing sequence to realize large-area, flexible electronics on polymer substrates.


PACS

81.16.Mk Laser-assisted deposition

81.20.Ev Powder processing: powder metallurgy, compaction, sintering, mechanical alloying, and granulation

81.07.Bc Nanocrystalline materials

81.16.Rf Nanoscale pattern formation

Subjects

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 34 (29 August 2007)

Received 11 April 2007, in final form 15 June 2007

Published 1 August 2007



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