scholarly journals Advanced chemical science-based high-resolution low-cost printing for high performance printed electronics

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingsheng Shi
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Printed Electronics ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Chemical Science

Development of Silver Nanoparticle Ink for Printed Electronics

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (1) ◽  
pp. 000935-000939
Author(s):  
Yiliang Wu ◽  
Ping Liu ◽  
Tony Wigglesworth
Keyword(s):  
Silver Nanoparticles ◽  
Silver Nanoparticle ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Printed Electronics ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Conductivity ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Electrical Stability ◽  
Nanoparticle Ink

Printable conductors with high conductivity would be critical for low-cost printed electronics. In view of printability, conductivity, and electrical stability, metal such as gold or silver derived from solution-deposited precursor compositions would be an ideal candidate. Xerox has been exploring the use of silver nanoparticles as conductor precursor composition for printed electronics. This paper reviews our research in the development of alkylamine-stabilized silver nanoparticles that can be sintered at low temperature (∼ 120 °C) for high conductivity (>10000 S/cm). Silver nanoparticle ink formulations based on these silver nanoparticles exhibit surface-energy independent printability which enables the fabrication of high-performance top-contact transistor devices, and self-assembly characteristic when printed on hydrophilic substrates which allows for large-area, defect-free source drain arrays to be printed with a narrow and uniform channel length.

Development of a Highly Miniaturized PQT-Sensor for Monitoring and Diagnosing of Pneumatic Systems

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Sosna ◽  
Rainer Buchner ◽  
Walter Lang ◽  
Wolfgang Benecke ◽  
Christian Boehm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
First Principles ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Measuring Range ◽  
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ◽  
Diagnostic Applications ◽  
Design Proposal

In this paper a feasibility study of a micromachined PQT-sensor for measurement of pressure (P), flow rate (Q), and temperature (T) for diagnostic applications in pneumatic systems is presented. As a low cost device this innovative PQT-sensor has to fulfill different kinds of criteria such as wide measuring range, fast response time, high resolution and high accuracy for diagnosing the health status of a pneumatic system. By using micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) technologies small high-performance sensors were fabricated which fulfill all these criteria. At first, principles will be described that have been chosen for measurement of pressure, flow and temperature that will be used for the PQT-sensor. A design proposal for the sensor will be presented and verified with analytical calculations to show its applicability.

scholarly journals Inkjet Printing of Polyacrylic Acid-Coated Silver Nanoparticle Ink onto Paper with Sub-100 Micron Pixel Size

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavuri ◽  
Mayes ◽  
Alexander
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Silver Nanoparticle ◽  
Inkjet Printing ◽  
Polyacrylic Acid ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Printed Electronics ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Electrical Performance ◽  
Print Quality ◽  
Single Pass

Printed electronics (PE) technology shows huge promise for the realisation of low-cost and flexible electronics, with the ability to pattern heat- or pressure-sensitive materials. In future developments of the PE market, the ability to produce highly conductive, high-resolution patterns using low-cost and roll-to-roll processes, such as inkjet printing, is a critical technology component for the fabrication of printed electronics and displays. Here, we demonstrate inkjet printing of polyacrylic acid (PAA) capped silver nanoparticle dispersions onto paper for high-conductivity electronic interconnects. We characterise the resulting print quality, feature geometry and electrical performance of inkjet patterned features and demonstrate the high-resolution printing, sub-100 micron feature size, of silver nanoparticle materials onto flexible paper substrate. Printed onto photo-paper, these materials then undergo chemically triggered sintering on exposure to chloride contained in the paper. We investigated the effect of substrate temperature on the properties of printed silver material from room temperature to 50 °C. At room temperature, the resistivity of single layer printed features, of average thickness of 500 nm and width 85 µm, was found to be 2.17 × 10−7 Ω·m or 13 times resistivity of bulk silver (RBS). The resistivity initially decreased with an increase in material thickness, when achieved by overprinting successive layers or by decreasing print pitch, and a resistivity of around 10 times RBS was observed after overprinting two times at pitch 75 µm and with single pass print pitch of between 60 and 80 µm, resulting in line thickness up to 920 nm. On further increases in thickness the resistivity increased and reached 27 times RBS at print pitch of 15 µm. On moderate heating of the substrate to 50 °C, more compact silver nanoparticle films were formed, reducing thickness to 200 nm from a single pass print, and lower material resistivity approaching five times RBS was achieved.

scholarly journals Study and application of Symphonie model to compute the hydrodynamic processes in the East Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4A) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
To Duy Thai ◽  
Bui Hong Long
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Seawater Temperature ◽  
East Sea ◽  
Time Data ◽  
In Situ Data ◽  
Hydrodynamic Processes ◽  
Hydrodynamic Fields

Hydrodynamic processes in the East Sea have been studied by many Vietnamese and foreign scientists applying the models as advanced tools with low cost and spatial and temporal synchronized dataset to serve their research. However, applying the model to study variability of small and medium structures with very high resolution (a few kilometers) is still challenge for scientists. With the advantages of high quality real-time data, open source hydrodynamic model, and the support from high performance computer (HPC) systems, we have step by step studied and developed the numerical model for study on hydrodynamic fields in the East Sea. The model was validated with high resolution satellite data as well as in-situ data from the ARGO and research vessels. Initial results of the simulation are very good for the surface seawater temperature (SST) field in the East Sea.

scholarly journals Low cost, high performance processing of single particle cryo-electron microscopy data in the cloud

eLife ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Cianfrocco ◽  
Andres E Leschziner
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Single Particle ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Cryo Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
Microscopy Data

The advent of a new generation of electron microscopes and direct electron detectors has realized the potential of single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a technique to generate high-resolution structures. Calculating these structures requires high performance computing clusters, a resource that may be limiting to many likely cryo-EM users. To address this limitation and facilitate the spread of cryo-EM, we developed a publicly available ‘off-the-shelf’ computing environment on Amazon's elastic cloud computing infrastructure. This environment provides users with single particle cryo-EM software packages and the ability to create computing clusters with 16–480+ CPUs. We tested our computing environment using a publicly available 80S yeast ribosome dataset and estimate that laboratories could determine high-resolution cryo-EM structures for $50 to $1500 per structure within a timeframe comparable to local clusters. Our analysis shows that Amazon's cloud computing environment may offer a viable computing environment for cryo-EM.

scholarly journals Scalable fabrication of printed Zn//MnO2 planar micro-batteries with high volumetric energy density and exceptional safety

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Wang ◽  
Shuanghao Zheng ◽  
Feng Zhou ◽  
Jieqiong Qin ◽  
Xiaoyu Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Printed Electronics ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Current Collector ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Bipolar Cells ◽  
Power Sources

Abstract The rapid development of printed and microscale electronics imminently requires compatible micro-batteries (MBs) with high performance, applicable scalability, and exceptional safety, but faces great challenges from the ever-reported stacked geometry. Herein the first printed planar prototype of aqueous-based, high-safety Zn//MnO2 MBs, with outstanding performance, aesthetic diversity, flexibility and modularization, is demonstrated, based on interdigital patterns of Zn ink as anode and MnO2 ink as cathode, with high-conducting graphene ink as a metal-free current collector, fabricated by an industrially scalable screen-printing technique. The planar separator-free Zn//MnO2 MBs, tested in neutral aqueous electrolyte, deliver a high volumetric capacity of 19.3 mAh/cm3 (corresponding to 393 mAh/g) at 7.5 mA/cm3, and notable volumetric energy density of 17.3 mWh/cm3, outperforming lithium thin-film batteries (≤10 mWh/cm3). Furthermore, our Zn//MnO2 MBs present long-term cyclability having a high capacity retention of 83.9% after 1300 cycles at 5 C, which is superior to stacked Zn//MnO2 batteries previously reported. Also, Zn//MnO2 planar MBs exhibit exceptional flexibility without observable capacity decay under serious deformation, and remarkably serial and parallel integration of constructing bipolar cells with high voltage and capacity output. Therefore, low-cost, environmentally benign Zn//MnO2 MBs with in-plane geometry possess huge potential as high-energy, safe, scalable and flexible microscale power sources for direction integration with printed electronics.

Development of Silver Nanoparticle Ink for Printed Electronics

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiliang Wu ◽  
Ping Liu ◽  
Tony Wigglesworth
Keyword(s):  
Silver Nanoparticles ◽  
Silver Nanoparticle ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Printed Electronics ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Conductivity ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Electrical Stability ◽  
Nanoparticle Ink

Printable conductors with high conductivity are critical for low-cost printed electronics. From the view of printability, conductivity, and electrical stability, an ideal candidate would be a metal such as gold or silver derived from solution-deposited precursor compositions. We have been exploring the use of silver nanoparticles as the conductor precursor for printed electronics. This paper reviews our research in the development of alkylamine-stabilized silver nanoparticles that can be sintered at a low temperature (∼120°C) for high conductivity (>10,000 S/cm). Silver nanoparticle ink formulations based on these silver nanoparticles exhibit surface-energy independent printability, which enables the fabrication of high-performance top-contact transistor devices, and self-assembly characteristic when printed on hydrophilic substrates, which allows for large-area, defect-free source/drain arrays to be printed with a narrow and uniform channel length.

High-resolution scanning electron microscopy of thin-film magnetic media of magnetic recording disk

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1334-1335
Author(s):  
K. Ogura ◽  
H. Nishioka ◽  
N. Ikeo ◽  
T. Kanazawa ◽  
J. Teshima
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Fine Structure ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Magnetic Recording ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Magnetic Hysteresis ◽  
Grain Structure ◽  
Magnetic Media ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Resolution Observation

Structural appraisal of thin film magnetic media is very important because their magnetic characters such as magnetic hysteresis and recording behaviors are drastically altered by the grain structure of the film. However, in general, the surface of thin film magnetic media of magnetic recording disk which is process completed is protected by several-nm thick sputtered carbon. Therefore, high-resolution observation of a cross-sectional plane of a disk is strongly required to see the fine structure of the thin film magnetic media. Additionally, observation of the top protection film is also very important in this field.Recently, several different process-completed magnetic disks were examined with a UHR-SEM, the JEOL JSM 890, which consisted of a field emission gun and a high-performance immerse lens. The disks were cut into approximately 10-mm squares, the bottom of these pieces were carved into more than half of the total thickness of the disks, and they were bent. There were many cracks on the bent disks. When these disks were observed with the UHR-SEM, it was very difficult to observe the fine structure of thin film magnetic media which appeared on the cracks, because of a very heavy contamination on the observing area.

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