Handbook of Flexible Organic Electronics

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Integrated printing for 2D/3D flexible organic electronic devices

B.S. Cook, B. Tehrani, J.R. Cooper, S. Kim,  and M.M. Tentzeris     Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA, USA

Abstract

This chapter reviews the use of inkjet printing technologies in the manufacture of 2D and 3D flexible organic electronic devices. It discusses the principles and technologies in inkjet printing and electronic inks. It then describes how inkjet printing can be used to manufacture components such as capacitors, inductors, resistors, vias and antennas.

Keywords

Antennas; Capacitors; Electronic inks; Flexible organic electronic devices; Inductors; Inkjet printing; Resistors

8.1. Introduction

Ever since the advent of the printing press in the early 1400s in Mainz, Germany, printing has ...