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Inkjet Printing of Conductive and Resistive Coatings

  • F. Varela López , A. Diez and A. Odriozola
Published/Copyright: March 26, 2013
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International Polymer Processing
From the journal International Polymer Processing Volume 22 Issue 1

Abstract

Coating of functional materials is the basis of many electronic device manufacturing processes. Screen printing, roll coating and other methods have been used for decades, permitting low cost, high production rates of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), where conductive pathways are printed before components are integrated. Nowadays, the PCB industry in developed countries is suffering a revision of all manufacturing processes, to cope with severe market constraints: short runs and fast time-to-market. Inkjet technology has arrived to complement the traditional, analogical production, with new tools that makes possible to produce goods with great versatility.

In this work we will state the problem of inkjet printing functional materials in the frame of PCB manufacturing. The use of numerical methods to asset the formation of conductive pathlines using digital techniques will be presented. Also, the use of resistive and dielectric inks will be discussed.

∗ Mail address: F. Varela López, CEMITEC (Centro Multidisciplinar de Tecnología e Innovación), Pza. CEIN 4, P.I. Mocholí, 31110 Noain (Navarra) Spain. E-mail:

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Received: 2006-5-8
Accepted: 2006-11-9
Published Online: 2013-03-26
Published in Print: 2007-03-01

© 2007, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich

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https://doi.org/10.3139/217.2005

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. Contents
  3. Editorial
  4. International Polymer Processing Special Issue: European Coating Symposium 2005, University of Bradford, UK
  5. Invited Papers
  6. Coating and Polymer Processing
  7. Practical Limitations to Carrier Layer Formation on Inclined Planes
  8. Simulation of 3D Crystallization of Colloidal Nanoparticles on a Substrate during Drying
  9. Asymmetric Surface Roughness Formationon Moving Non-isothermal Liquid Coatings
  10. Inkjet Printing of Conductive and Resistive Coatings
  11. Moisture Sorption and Transport in Polylactide
  12. 10.3139/217.0992
  13. Review Article
  14. Welding of Plastics: Fundamentals and New Developments
  15. Regular Contributed Articles
  16. Numerical Simulation of Viscous Flow in a Partially filled Co-rotating Twin Screw Extruder
  17. Invited Papers
  18. A New Calculation Model and Optimization Method for Maddock Mixers in Single Screw Plasticising Technology
  19. Regular Contributed Articles
  20. Residual Wall Thickness Distribution at the Transition and Curve Sections of Water-assisted Injection Molded Tubes
  21. Numerical Simulation of Extrusion Coating
  22. Correlation between Injection Molding Parameters, Morphology and Mechanical Properties of PPS/SEBS Blend Using Artificial Neural Networks
  23. PPS News
  24. PPS News
  25. Seikei-Kakou Abstracts
  26. Seikei-Kakou Abstracts
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