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 general designs of ink ...