Pneumatic dispensing of nano- to picoliter droplets of liquid metal with the StarJet method for rapid prototyping of metal microstructures

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 75-84

  Tropmann, A ^a   Lass, N ^a   Paust, N ^a   Metz, T ^a   Ziegler, C ^a   Zengerle, R ^a,b   Koltay, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Hahn Schickard Gesellschaft for Applied Research   (Germany)

^c BIOFLUIDIX GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drop on demand; Metal droplets; Metal printing; Micro droplets; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; CHIP DESIGN; DEEP REACTIVE ION ETCHING; DIRECT PROTOTYPING; DIRECTIONAL STABILITY; DROP-ON DEMAND; DROPLET DIAMETERS; DROPLET EJECTION; DROPLET GENERATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; LIQUID PLUGS; METAL DROPLETS; METAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MICRO DROPLETS; NOZZLE DIAMETER; NOZZLE GEOMETRIES; PICOLITER DROPLETS; PRESSURE LEVEL; PRINT HEAD; SILICON CHIP; SINGLE DROPLET;

ASPECT RATIO; GEOMETRY; LIQUID METALS; METALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NOZZLE DESIGN; RAPID PROTOTYPING; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; STARS;

SPRAY NOZZLES;

EID: 84856216143     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0850-1     Document Type: Article

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