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Article: Ink jet printing for high-frequency electronic applications: nanoparticle inks and drop-on-demand ink jet printers offer a unique opportunity to generate fine-line additive circuits on flexible, three-dimensional substrates.(INK JET PRINTING)
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- Printed Circuit Design & Fab
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Ink jet printing has been gaining interest for use in electronics manufacture. This article is intended to provide a brief overview of ink jet printing; a review of some of the applications of high-frequency electronics from the literature; and, finally, some ideas as to possible further applications.
In a review of ink jet printing for graphics applications, Le defined the technology as follows; "Ink-jet is a non-impact dot-matrix printing technology in which droplets of ink are jetted from a small aperture directly to a specified position on a media to create an image (1)."
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To facilitate this technology, there are two ...