Inkjet-Printed Electronic Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2021) | Viewed by 298
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The field of printed electronics is a rapidly expanding research area owing to the development of new materials and processes. A range of components can be printed, such as transistors, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), displays, and photovoltaics. This has led to an increase in demand for low-cost, light-weight, flexible devices, posing strong limitations on conventional fabrication methods. Unlike its traditional silicon counterpart, additive printing is one of the most promising candidates since it is a well‐suited strategy to implement commercial thin‐film devices and systems because of its large‐area, ultra-low‐cost, nonvacuum, and environmentally friendly processability.
Despite many advances in the field of printed electronics, inkjet printing is a promising method of fabrication for low-cost approaches. Other printing methods require the creation of a master (a custom-patterned component such as a screen, stencil, or mask) for each material. This leads to a time-consuming and often expensive process. Moreover, inkjet printing has higher accuracy, which allows for the fabrication of devices with complex stacked structures thanks to a piezoelectric drop‐on‐demand (DOD) jetting of picoliter (pL)‐volume droplets. Finally, because inkjet printing is a type of DOD digital printing, customized production and short print runs with rapid design changes can be achieved with a great deal of freedom. Promising devices such as field-effect transistors (FETs) have been created by the recent development of two-dimensional materials (2DMs) which combine good tunable electronic properties with high solubility, enabling their deposition by simple fabrication techniques such as inkjet printing. Apart from 2DMs, organic and metal oxide semiconductors as well as conductive nanoparticles have been used for the fabrication of functional inkjet-printed devices.
This Special Issue focuses on the development of electronic devices manufactured by inkjet printing, including the deposition of solution-processed layers based on nanoparticles, oxide semiconductors, and 2D materials, among others. Target electronic devices involve FETs, diodes, passive components (resistors, capacitors), and antennas, among others. Moreover, we encourage our audience to consider the development of sustainable or renewables-based electronic devices.
Dr. Carme Martinez-Domingo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- inkjet printing
- additive manufacturing
- renewable electronics
- electronic devices
- solution-processed materials
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