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Printed Electronics

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2015) | Viewed by 12428

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Hyun Wook Kang

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea
Interests: micro contact printing; gravure-offset printing; molecular jet printing; roll to roll (R2R) process; organic thin film transistor (OTFT); organic photovoltaics (OPV); dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC); 3-diemensional printing; chemical/Bio sensors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Printed electronics is recognized as a promising research area that enables a substitution for traditional silicon-based electronics due to its ability to fabricate devices, even on flexible substrates, and realize a high-throughput process. The interest in printed electronics is progressively increasing to achieve next-generation electronics, such as flexible displays, wearable computers, and the Internet of Things. For the successful realization of applications, lower temperature, easier fabrication, less time-consumption, and more cost-effective approaches are considered, and various printing techniques with organic materials as inorganic ones have been developed and analyzed for practical electronic devices. In order to ensure a successful approach to the potentially large market, which will be created by printed electronics, more effective research activities are required, with comprehensive studies on materials, printing processes, and demonstration of electronic devices.

In this Special Issue on Printed Electronics, potential topics could include, but are not limited to, original research work on recent developments in materials, processing, and applications. Examples include printed thin film transistors, photovoltaics, displays, sensors, batteries, and wearable devices.

Dr. Hyun Wook Kang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Printable electronic device
  • Flexible electronics
  • Wearable electronics
  • Organic electronics
  • Large area electronics
  • Thin film transistor
  • Photovoltaics device
  • Display device
  • Sensors

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Effects of the Particle Size and the Solvent in Printing Inks on the Capacitance of Printed Parallel-Plate Capacitors
by Sungsik Park and Dongjin Lee
Electronics 2016, 5(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics5010007 - 2 Feb 2016
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Parallel-plate capacitors were fabricated using a printed multi-layer structure in order to determine the effects of particle size and solvent on the capacitance. The conductive-dielectric-conductive layers were sequentially spun using commercial inks and by intermediate drying with the aid of a masking polymeric [...] Read more.
Parallel-plate capacitors were fabricated using a printed multi-layer structure in order to determine the effects of particle size and solvent on the capacitance. The conductive-dielectric-conductive layers were sequentially spun using commercial inks and by intermediate drying with the aid of a masking polymeric layer. Both optical and scanning electron microscopy were used to characterize the morphology of the printed layers. The measured capacitance was larger than the theoretically calculated value when ink with small-sized particles was used as the top plate. Furthermore, the use of a solvent whose polarity was similar to that of the underlying dielectric layer enhanced the penetration and resulted in an increase in capacitance. The functional resistance-capacitance low-pass filter was implemented using printed resistors and capacitors, a process that may be scalable in the future. Full article
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Self-Aligned Metal Electrodes in Fully Roll-to-Roll Processed Organic Transistors
by Marja Vilkman, Teemu Ruotsalainen, Kimmo Solehmainen, Elina Jansson and Johanna Hiitola-Keinänen
Electronics 2016, 5(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics5010002 - 7 Jan 2016
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We demonstrate the production of organic bottom gate transistors with self-aligned electrodes, using only continuous roll-to-roll (R2R) techniques. The self-alignment allows accurate <5 µm layer-to-layer registration, which is usually a challenge in high-speed R2R environments as the standard registration methods are limited to [...] Read more.
We demonstrate the production of organic bottom gate transistors with self-aligned electrodes, using only continuous roll-to-roll (R2R) techniques. The self-alignment allows accurate <5 µm layer-to-layer registration, which is usually a challenge in high-speed R2R environments as the standard registration methods are limited to the millimeter range—or, at best, to tens of µm if online cameras and automatic web control are utilized. The improved registration enables minimizing the overlap between the source/drain electrodes and the gate electrode, which is essential for minimizing the parasitic capacitance. The complete process is a combination of several techniques, including evaporation, reverse gravure, flexography, lift-off, UV exposure and development methods—all transferred to a continuous R2R pilot line. Altogether, approximately 80 meters of devices consisting of thousands of transistors were manufactured in a roll-to-roll fashion. Finally, a cost analysis is presented in order to ascertain the main costs and to predict whether the process would be feasible for the industrial production of organic transistors. Full article
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