Industrial-scale inkjet printed electronics manufacturing—production up-scaling from concept tools to a roll-to-roll pilot line

Abbel, Robert; Teunissen, Pit; Rubingh, Eric; Lammeren, Tim van; Cauchois, Romain; Everaars, Marcel; Valeton, Joost; Geijn, Sjoerd van de; Groen, Pim

doi:10.1088/2053-1613/1/015002

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“…Red light, which is not strongly absorbed by Ag NPs, especially when they are below 50 nm, indeed exhibited a delay in the sintering process, together with a high percentage of non-conductive samples. 213 Only one reacted advantageously to that treatment, whereas in the other two cases either no conductivity was obtained or extreme foil deformation was observed. The line geometry was also found to inuence the sintering behavior, most probably because of the different heating proles induced by the differences in relative contact area with the heat sink (substrate).…”

Section: Intense Pulsed Light (Ipl) Sinteringmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…On the other hand, IPL sintering requires a lot of process optimization to fully exploit its advantages, which can be a tedious and time-consuming process. 213 A similar process has also been applied to inkjet-printed CuO, though no specic conductivity was reported in this case. 213 Starting from a very small research tool, many different inks can be screened and benchmarked, and the various ashing parameters can be varied on a small scale, with limited effort.…”

Section: Intense Pulsed Light (Ipl) Sinteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…213 Starting from a very small research tool, many different inks can be screened and benchmarked, and the various ashing parameters can be varied on a small scale, with limited effort. Furthermore, no protective atmosphere is required, even if the used metals are sensitive to oxidation.…”

Section: Intense Pulsed Light (Ipl) Sinteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Progress of alternative sintering approaches of inkjet-printed metal inks and their application for manufacturing of flexible electronic devices

Wünscher¹,

Abbel²,

Perelaer³

et al. 2014

J. Mater. Chem. C

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Well-defined high resolution structures with excellent electrical conductivities are key components of almost every electronic device. Producing these by printing metal based conductive inks on polymer foils represents an important step forward towards the manufacturing of plastic electronic products on an industrial scale. The development of fast, efficient and inexpensive post-deposition sintering technologies for these materials is an important processing step to make this approach commercially viable. This review discusses the advances in alternative sintering approaches for conductive, metal containing inks, which can be processed by inkjet-printing processes. Each sintering approach is examined regarding its mechanism, its compatibility with commonly used materials in the field of flexible electronics, its compatibility with high-throughput manufacturing processes and its applicability to the production of flexible electronic devices.

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Section: Intense Pulsed Light (Ipl) Sinteringmentioning

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Section: Intense Pulsed Light (Ipl) Sinteringmentioning

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Progress of alternative sintering approaches of inkjet-printed metal inks and their application for manufacturing of flexible electronic devices

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Abbel²,

Perelaer³

et al. 2014

J. Mater. Chem. C

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“…In this situation, R2R fabrication of OPV will encourage the high throughput at diminished expenses for these applications [77,78]. Recently, the fabrication of top standard conductive silver structures utilizing inkjet printing in fast R2R processing has been shown for various electronic devices [79]. These most recent improvements convey R2R inkjet printing of OPVs a step closer by demonstrating the usefulness of making these devices reliably utilizing a high-volume roll-to-roll technology.…”

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Organic Solar Cell by Inkjet Printing—An Overview

2017

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Abstract:In recent years, organic solar cells became more attractive due to their flexible power devices and the potential for low-cost manufacturing. Inkjet printing is a very potential manufacturing technique of organic solar cells because of its low material usage, flexibility, and large area formation. In this paper, we presented an overall review on the inkjet printing technology as well as advantages of inkjet-printing, comparison of inkjet printing with other printing technologies and its potential for organic solar cells (OSCs). Here we highlighted in more details about the viability of environment-friendly and cost-effective, non-halogenated indium tin oxide (ITO) free large scale roll to roll production of the OSC by inkjet printing technology. The challenges of inkjet printing like the viscosity limitations, nozzle clogging, coffee ring effect, and limitation of printability as well as dot spacing are also discussed. Lastly, some of the improvement strategies for getting the higher efficiency of the OSCs have been suggested.

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“…Reduced graphene oxide (rGO), which can be obtained by the reduction of graphene oxide (GO) extracted from inexpensive graphite, offers much higher specific capacitance than conventional activated carbons and carbon nanotubes. [43][44][45][46] Thus, the combination of papermaking and flash reduction is expected to be a promising approach for the high-speed and roll-to-roll production of high-capacitance and flexible rGO-based electrodes. …”

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Fast, scalable, and eco-friendly fabrication of an energy storage paper electrode

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Recent progress in portable and wearable electronics has promoted a growing demand for highperformance and flexible energy-storage devices that are abundant and affordable. Because reduced graphene oxide (rGO), originating from inexpensive graphite, serves as higher-performance energystorage electrode than conventional activated carbons and carbon nanotubes, research and development of rGO/polymer composite electrodes for flexible supercapacitors have become a center of attraction.However, the fabrication of rGO-based flexible electrodes frequently requires long time with hightemperature treatment or toxic chemical treatment, resulting in the lack of scalability and ecofriendliness. Here we show fast, scalable, and environment-compatible route to fabricate highperformance rGO/cellulose paper supercapacitor electrode. Single-layer graphene oxide (GO) sheets and recycled waste pulp fibers were successfully fabricated into a paper composite by a wellestablished scalable papermaking process, followed by a room-temperature, additive-free, and millisecond-timescale flash reduction process. The as-prepared rGO/paper electrode had high specific capacitance, up to 212 F g -1 , for an all paper-based flexible supercapacitor, comparable to those of state-of-the-art rGO-based electrodes, while dramatically decreasing the reduction time of GO from the conventional hour timescale to milliseconds. This work will pave the way for green, flexible, and massproducible energy-storage papers in future wearable electronics. IntroductionSince the invention of paper approximately 2000 years ago, it has been traditionally fabricated from an aqueous suspension of cellulose fibers by papermaking, which is a sequential process of filtration, dewatering, and drying. The current papermaking process enables high-speed and large-area fabrication of paper materials up to 18,000 m 2 min -1 . Therefore, paper materials are mass-producible and inexpensive, and they have been used for many purposes, such as writing, printing, and packaging applications, in daily life. Recently, the application of paper has been extended to electronics; [1,2] electronic devices have been fabricated on paper substrates, including inorganic [3,4] and organic transistors, [5] complementary metal oxide semiconductors, [6,7] triboelectric nanogenerators, [8] memory, [9,10] transparent conductive films, [11,12] and antennas. [13,14] Paper electronics provides new possibilities for next-generation devices with flexible, biodegradable, biocompatible, and eco-friendly electronics.Recent years have seen remarkable progress in wearable electronics; [15,16] portable consumer electronics are becoming flexible, lightweight, and even wearable. Because wearable electronics essentially require energy-storage devices with thin, lightweight, flexible, and conformable properties, such flexible energy-storage devices have become the focus of major research. [17][18][19] Of various energystorage devices, supercapacitors have attracted much attention because of their high power den...

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Industrial-scale inkjet printed electronics manufacturing—production up-scaling from concept tools to a roll-to-roll pilot line

Cited by 57 publications

References 38 publications

Progress of alternative sintering approaches of inkjet-printed metal inks and their application for manufacturing of flexible electronic devices

Progress of alternative sintering approaches of inkjet-printed metal inks and their application for manufacturing of flexible electronic devices

Organic Solar Cell by Inkjet Printing—An Overview

Fast, scalable, and eco-friendly fabrication of an energy storage paper electrode

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