Inkjet-Printed Thin Film Devices
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2021) | Viewed by 3352
Special Issue Editor
Interests: printed electronics; wearable electronics; thin-film devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to kindly invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on "Inkjet-Printed Thin Film Devices". As the demands for wearable or implantable devices/systems increase, new solutions in terms of suitable materials and processes are highly desirable. In particular, future electronics may need to be free from rigid substrates fabricated through a series of subtractive processes, such as traditional evaporation processes with masks or photolithography followed by etching. In other words, devices should be implemented on substrates other than limited rigid silicon or glass, and miniaturized even at additional cost. Because representative wearable platforms, such as polymer-based substrates, are difficult to utilize in traditional microfabrication, the development of alternative processes that can be employed for implementing low-cost, large-area, flexible, and biocompatible electronics is key to meet this demand. Additive inkjet printing is one of the most promising candidates to satisfy these requirements and is a well-suited strategy to implement commercial thin film devices and systems because of its large-area, ultra-low-cost, non-vacuum, and environmentally friendly processability. Moreover, recent inkjet printing technique has high registration accuracy, which allows the fabrication of devices with complex stacked structures without masks. Finally, because inkjet printing is a type of drop-on-demand digital printing, physically pre-encoded patterns in rollers or plates are not required; therefore, customized production and short print runs with rapid design changes can be achieved with much freedom.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present advanced printable materials as well as the state-of-the-art of inkjet-printed thin film devices and solution-processed flexible electronics that combine these fundamental and applied research topics. These include, but are not limited to:
- Inkjet-printed organic/inorganic thin-film transistors
- Inkjet-printed light-emitting devices
- Inkjet-printed sensors
- Inkjet-printed bioelectronic devices
- Inkjet-printable materials
- Other advanced printing techniques
- A wide range of printed electronics
- Flexible/stretchable platforms suitable to printing process
Dr. Seungjun Chung
Guest Editor
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