High-resolution electrohydrodynamic jet printing

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 782-789

  Park, Jang Ung ^a   Hardy, Matt ^a   Kang, Seong Jun ^a,b   Barton, Kira ^c   Adair, Kurt ^c   Mukhopadhyay, Deep Kishore ^c   Lee, Chang Young ^c   Strano, Michael S ^c   Alleyne, Andrew G ^c   Georgiadis, John G ^c   Ferreira, Placid M ^c   Rogers, John A ^a,c  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DROP FORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MEMS; NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

HIGH-SPEED IMAGING; JET PRINTING; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; PROBING PADS;

ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; PRINTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; PRINTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34848838673     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1974     Document Type: Article

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