Printing metal

In the early 1970s, the first companies to apply low cost, mass production techniques to photovoltaics, a technology that had previously been considered an exotic aerospace technology, emerged. These techniques included the use of electroplated and screen printed metal paste electrical conductors, reflow soldered ribbon interconnects, and by 1977, low cost, automobile windshield-style, laminated module constmction. Such processes benefitted from a substantial existing industrial infrastmcture, and have become virtually ubiquitous in the present PV industry. 

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Polyethylene can generally be decorated after the same pre-treatments by painting, printing, metallization. Service conditions must be light. 

Screen printing Metals, carbon/graphite, semiconductors, insulators Apply liquid solution or suspension through fine mesh screen mask to form pattern then convert film to desired form as above... 

Table 2. Comparison of printed metal deposition methods to photolithography and vacuum deposition.

Solution processable conductors come in three main elasses metals, metal oxides or organics. Printed metals, most notably as eleetrodes or RFID antennae, are mainly obtained by using partiele-based inks. Silver or gold partiele inks are eommercially available. Evonik has developed silver printing pastes, sueh as Silver 30 SN, a formulation of silver flakes in organie solvents, optimized for screen printing (Figure 2.6). 

This book covers Inspection techniques for specific industries, including laboratories, paint and ink formulation, pharmaceuticals, photo finishing, printing, metal finishing and electroplating, and semiconductors. 

The carrier may be glassine, cellulose film, and polyester film. The choice of carrier relates to speed and transfer temperature. Polyester (i.e. Melinex) is the most common base. It is suitable for flat, cylindrical or radiused surfaces. The process is used for online printing. Metallic foil consists of a carrier, release coating, lacquer metallised layer and a hot melt type adhesive specially formulated for the substrate. 

FIGURE 5.5.11 Scanning electron micrographs of a PDMS stamp with 20-nm An and 5-nm Ti on the raised and recessed regions before (a) and after (b) nTP. (c) The resulting printed metal features on a plastic substrate. (From Y.-L. Loo et ah, Appl. Phys. Lett., 81, 562, 2002.)... 

Using a modified Epson ink-jet printer, they printed metal salt solutions of platinum, rhodium, osmium, ruthenium, and iridium to form 220 compositions in the phase space of ternary and quaternary alloys of these metals. They were converted to metallic form after printing the metal salt solutions and screened for performance using a pH-sensitive fluorescence indicator. This led to identification of new fuel cell catalysts Pt 2l h250s,3 and Pt44Ru4jOjoIr5, which provided 40% higher current densities. 

H.L, Choi, I.H., Hong, W.H., Ko, I.M., Lee, S.H., Choa, S.H., Ko, S.H., 2014. Flexible supercapacitor fabrication by room temperature rapid laser processing of roU-to-roU printed metal nanoparticle ink for wearable electronics application. ]. Power Sources 246,562-568. 

For all-printed thin film transistors (TFT), various organic and inorganic metal electrode materials, such as conductive polymer, carbon nanotube (CNT), organic metal compound, or metal nano-particles, have been used as gate and source/drain electrodes [6-11] in a combination with inkjet- and laser-based printing methods. One of the immediate applications for all-printed TFT would be flexible or rugged display backplane and disposable radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. In addition, printed metal electrodes and TFT have also been used to fabricate passive circuit components, power transmission sheets and sensors for ambient electronics and electronic skin [12-13]. 

The techniques of low temperature sintering of inkjet-printed metal precursor materials have been reviewed. In particular, the roU-to-roU processing has been described. Inkjet printing can be used as a highly reproducible noncontact patterning technique. In addition, it requires only small amoimts of functional materials (36). 

For solder printing, metal squeegees are often used because of their increased wear-resistant capability. These are made from stainless steel or nickel. 

As the fabrication process for LTCC and HTCC is fundamentally parallel, inspection plays an important role. Defective layers are ideally identified as early as possible so that additional value is not added to a layer that will ultimately be discarded as scrap. In addition, once a layer is committed to a substrate stack and that stack has been laminated, a defect in a single layer can lead to a scrapped substrate. As a result, inspection is normally performed on a sample or 100% basis throughout the process. These inspection steps generally include verification of via creation, via fill, and comparison of the screen-printed metallization to the design. This process can be as simple as an operator working with a microscope, but automated systems are also available. 

Or, indeed, the scrapped materials such as lead sheet and piping, or even print metal may simply be directly recovered and re-used. 

A distinction is sometimes made in lead scrap between battery scrap, old soft lead (from lead cables and pipes) and antimonial lead (print metal, bearing metal and other lead alloys), as well as mixed lead batches. Muller-Ohlsen op at... 

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