Role of additives in formulating jettable conductive inks for printed electronics
In recent years, it has been shown that printing methodologies can be used to print electrically functional devices directly on a variety of substrates. The requirements for manufacturing Printed Electronics (PE) components are much more demanding than graphic printing applications due to the additional requirement of unimpeded electron flow. This additional requirement increases the need for print uniformity and layer-to-layer registration to a much higher degree.
Elements of printability need also be refined to further improve the efficiency and at-scale viability of electronic inks as a replacement for traditional circuit and device components. The role and selection of specialty surfactants for use in conductive electronic inks is explored in this paper.
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