A general ink formulation of 2D crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing

Autor: Xiaoxi Zhu, Qing Wu, Richard C. T. Howe, Guohua Hu, Yubo Wang, Shouhu Liu, Robert I. Woodward, Tom Albrow-Owen, Qing Yang, Meng Zhang, Tien-Chun Wu, Xiao Huang, Colin D. Bain, Xiaoshan Wang, Luigi Occhipinti, Tawfique Hasan, Zhipei Sun, Zongyin Yang, Edmund J. R. Kelleher, Jie Dai, Xinxin Jin, Lisong Yang, Leonard W. T. Ng
Přispěvatelé: Hu, Guohua [0000-0001-9296-1236], Yang, Lisong [0000-0003-4520-8422], Yang, Zongyin [0000-0003-2869-406X], Wang, Yubo [0000-0001-5766-3751], Jin, Xinxin [0000-0003-4200-271X], Dai, Jie [0000-0002-1810-0793], Wu, Qing [0000-0002-8716-7342], Liu, Shouhu [0000-0002-1889-4685], Zhu, Xiaoxi [0000-0002-5485-9270], Wang, Xiaoshan [0000-0003-4232-9202], Wu, Tien-Chun [0000-0002-6185-3256], Howe, Richard CT [0000-0001-5086-0699], Albrow-Owen, Tom [0000-0003-0443-014X], Ng, Leonard WT [0000-0001-6062-7823], Yang, Qing [0000-0001-5324-4832], Occhipinti, Luigi G [0000-0002-9067-2534], Woodward, Robert I [0000-0002-5026-494X], Kelleher, Edmund JR [0000-0003-4219-4926], Sun, Zhipei [0000-0002-9771-5293], Huang, Xiao [0000-0002-0106-7763], Zhang, Meng [0000-0002-8217-042X], Bain, Colin D [0000-0002-9561-2645], Hasan, Tawfique [0000-0002-6250-7582], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, University of Cambridge, Durham University, Beihang University, Nanjing Tech University, Zhejiang University, Imperial College London, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Apollo-University Of Cambridge Repository
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Science Advances
Hu, G, Yang, L, Yang, Z, Wang, Y, Jin, X, Dai, J, Wu, Q, Liu, S, Zhu, X, Wang, X, Wu, T C, Howe, R C T, Albrow-Owen, T, Ng, L W T, Yang, Q, Occhipinti, L G, Woodward, R I, Kelleher, E J R, Sun, Z, Huang, X, Zhang, M, Bain, C D & Hasan, T 2020, ' A general ink formulation of 2D crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing ', Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 33, eaba5029 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba5029
ISSN: 2375-2548
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba5029
Popis: A binary solvent ink exploiting solutal Marangoni flows to suppress the coffee-ring effect for uniform printing of 2D crystals.
Recent advances in inkjet printing of two-dimensional (2D) crystals show great promise for next-generation printed electronics development. Printing nonuniformity, however, results in poor reproducibility in device performance and remains a major impediment to their large-scale manufacturing. At the heart of this challenge lies the coffee-ring effect (CRE), ring-shaped nonuniform deposits formed during postdeposition drying. We present an experimental study of the drying mechanism of a binary solvent ink formulation. We show that Marangoni-enhanced spreading in this formulation inhibits contact line pinning and deforms the droplet shape to naturally suppress the capillary flows that give rise to the CRE. This general formulation supports uniform deposition of 2D crystals and their derivatives, enabling scalable and even wafer-scale device fabrication, moving them closer to industrial-level additive manufacturing.
Databáze: OpenAIRE