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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Aerosol jet printing"”.
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Addressing process variation in aerosol jet printing and accelerating conformal electronics manufacturing
Aerosol jet printing (AJP) is an additive manufacturing technique used for printing electronics. Capable of printing features on the order of 10-100 μm, AJP excels at patterning on surfaces with 3D topography, such as 3D structures and microelectronics packages, due to its large nozzle-to-surface …
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Computational fluid dynamics modeling and in situ physics-based monitoring of aerosol jet printing toward functional assurance of additively-manufactured, flexible and hybrid electronics
<p>Aerosol jet printing (AJP)—a direct-write, additive manufacturing technique—has emerged as the process of choice particularly for the fabrication of flexible and hybrid electronics. AJP has paved the way for high-resolution device fabrication with high placement accuracy, edge definition, and …
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Mechanical and electrical fatigue of aerosol jet printed conductors
Non-contact metallization processes, such as aerosol jet printing, allows for the deposition and novel processing of nanoparticle based conductive circuitry. The primary advantages in the utilization of such methods include the minimization of substrate handling and the exploitation of …
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Electron microscopy study of degradation mechanisms in Ni-rich transition metal oxide cathodes for Li-ion batteries
… microscopy techniques is developed. Using aerosol-jet printing, microbatteries consisting of commercially available battery active material powders are fabricated. This way, high resolution, placement precision and the ability to deposit arbitrary shapes as well as combine materials in a …
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Streamlining the development of biophotoelectrodes: from rational design to rapid screening
… and efficient semi-rational approach, the 3D printing method, aerosol jet printing, was employed to rapidly prototype diverse electrode structures, such as pillar, cone, arborescent and honeycomb shapes. This method significantly accelerated the fabrication process and expanded the range of …
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Electro-mechanically interfacing with biology using piezoelectric polymer nanostructures
… attachment and/or proliferation, and the use of Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP) to pattern the electrodes can lead to directed cell growth.
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Novel Functional Polymeric Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting Applications
… of nanoparticles in the polymer matrix, a dual aerosol-jet printing method has been developed and applied. As a result, outstanding dispersion and distribution. Furthermore, this method allows precise control of the various physical properties of interest, including the dielectric permittivity. …
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Fully Aerosol-Jet Printed Trilayer Electrochemical Actuator
… that produces trilayer ECAs entirely through aerosol jet printing (AJP), enabling low-cost rapid prototyping of micro-ECAs, investigation of actuators with different dimensions for performance optimisation, and creation of precise micropatterns. The first phase of this research focused on …
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Aerosol-Jet Printed Nanocomposites for Flexible and Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators
… fabricated via a customised and scalable aerosol-jet printing (AJP) technique. Firstly, Bi2Te3 nanoparticles and Sb2Te3 nanoflakes were fabricated using a solvothermal synthesis approach, and their resulting morphological and microstructural properties were studied. They were then …
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Fluid Characterisation Using Microfluidic Impedance Spectroscopy for Remote Health Monitoring
… interdigitated electrodes produced using aerosol-jet printing, a novel additive manufacturing technique. It is shown that such devices can be used to characterise aqueous ionic solutions by using impedance spectroscopy to directly measure their electrical properties. Impedance spectroscopy …
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Conformable and robust microfluidic force sensors for orthopaedic surgery
… onto which silver electrodes are deposited using aerosol-jet printing (AJP). The substrateis bonded to a microfluidic chip, which comprises a flexible deformable elastomer with an embedded fluid reservoir and channel. When an external force is applied to the reservoir portion of the microfluidic …