Novel approaches for low temperature sintering of inkjet-printed inorganic nanoparticles for roll-to-roll (R2R) applications

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 564-573

  Perelaer, Jolke ^a,b   Schubert, Ulrich S ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

inkjet printing; microwave; nanoparticles; photonic; plasma; printed electronics; sintering

Indexed keywords

INK-JET PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES; INORGANIC NANOPARTICLE; LOW-TEMPERATURE SINTERING; MICROELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; ROLL-TO-ROLL PROCESSING;

FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROWAVES; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONICS; PLASMAS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SINTERING; TEMPERATURE;

INK JET PRINTING;

EID: 84877700193     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2012.419     Document Type: Review

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