Design and fabrication of multimaterial electrohydrodynamic-jet deposition system

Electrohydrodynamic jet (E-jet) printing has emerged as a high resolution alternative to other forms of direct solution-based fabrication approaches, such as ink-jet printing. This thesis discusses the design, integration and operation of a unique E-jet printing platform. The uniqueness lies in the ability to utilize multiple materials in the same overall print-head thereby enabling increased degrees of heterogeneous integration of different functionalities on a single substrate. By utilizing multiple individual print-heads, with a carrousel indexing among them, increased material flexibility is achieved. The hardware design and system operation for a relatively inexpensive system are developed and presented. Crossover interconnects and multiple fluorescent tagged proteins, demonstrating printed electronics and biological sensing applications, respectively.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Sutanto, Erick

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alleyne, Andrew G.

• Electrohydrodynamic-Jet
• Manufacturing
• Nanotechnology
• Additive
• Multimaterial
• Biosensing
• Desktop E-jet
• High Resolution Printing

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2011 Erick Sutanto

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/29756

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/29756