Comparison of laser and intense pulsed light sintering (IPL) for inkjet-printed copper nanoparticle layers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Niittynen, Juha ^a   Sowade, Enrico ^b   Kang, Hyunkyoo ^b   Baumann, Reinhard R ^b,c   Mäntysalo, Matti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRONIC NANO SYSTEMS ENAS   (Germany)

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EID: 84924691857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08832     Document Type: Article

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