Inkjet printing of two-dimensional van der Waals materials: a new route towards emerging electronic device applications

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials have been considered one of the most promising candidates to realize emerging electrical applications. Although until recently, much effort has been dedicated to...

Recent advances in inkjet-printing technologies for flexible/wearable electronics

“…As an innovative preparation process, inkjet printing demonstrates a great advantage in fabricating flexible photodetectors, due to its merits such as effectiveness in materials, free of the mask, and patterned deposition, 126–136 endowing it excellent mechanical properties overcome its rigid counterparts.…”

“…Photoelectric detectors convert incident photons into electrical signals and are used in a wide range of scientific research and industrial applications such as optical interconnections, optical communications, and environmental monitoring. [122][123][124][125] As an innovative preparation process, inkjet printing demonstrates a great advantage in fabricating flexible photodetectors, due to its merits such as effectiveness in materials, free of the mask, and patterned deposition, [126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135][136] endowing it excellent mechanical properties overcome its rigid counterparts.…”

Nonpolar Solvent Modulated Inkjet Printing of Nanoparticle Self‐Assembly Morphologies

“…[11][12][13] With perfect photon manipulation capacities, liquid phase synthesized upconversion luminescent nanoparticles (UCNPs) are always used to fabricate different patterns, mainly through the photolithography technique, [14,15] template confined nanoparticles assembly, [16,17] screen printing, [18] inkjet printing, [19][20][21] as well as electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jet [22] and aerosol jet printing. [23] With the advantage of being contact-less, addressable, low-cost, and compatibility with a variety of substrates, inkjet printing shows a facile and versatile patterning approach applied in the fields of flexible electronics, [24,25] biosensors, [26] energy storage, [27] display, [28,29] anti-counterfeit, [30] etc., and the control of the deposits morphology is significant in the performance of the devices. [31,32] EHD jet and aerosol jet printing have the advantage of producing smaller droplet, allowing for high viscosity and fine placement of the ink droplet.…”

Photosensitisation of inkjet printed graphene with stable all-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals

“…1–3 However, these high-performance devices typically require bespoke fabrication techniques and are yet to reach commercial viability. 1,2 Additive manufacturing (AM), specifically inkjet printing, has the significance of offering a promising route for large scale, industrial style fabrication of devices incorporating nanomaterials such as graphene, 4,5 perovskites 6–10 and quantum dots. 11–13 Recently, fully inkjet manufactured organic photon detectors were demonstrated on flexible substrates 14 and rigid substrates with photoresponsivity, R up to ∼10 4 A W −1 .…”