Inkjet technology for digital fabrication /

• Other Authors: Hutchings, Ian M., Martin, Graham (Graham Dagnall)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley, 2013.
• Subjects: Microfluidics.; Microfabrication.; Ink-jet printing.; Three-dimensional printing.; Coating processes.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Material Science.; Electronic books.

Whilst inkjet technology is well-established on home and small office desktops and is now having increasing impact in commercial printing, it can also be used to deposit materials other than ink as individual droplets at a microscopic scale. This allows metals, ceramics, polymers and biological mate...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to inkjet printing for manufacturing
• Fundamentals of inkjet technology
• Dynamics of piezoelectric print-heads
• Fluids for inkjet printing
• When the drop hits the substrate
• Manufacturing of MEMS
• Conductive tracks and passive electronics
• Printed circuit board fabrication
• Active electronics
• Flat-panel OLED displays : a case study
• RFID manufacturing : a case study
• Biopolymers and cells
• Tissue engineering : a case study
• Three-dimensional digital fabrication
• Current inkjet technology and future directions.