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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019992603321

Titolo

Inkjet technology for digital fabrication / / edited by Ian M. Hutchings and Graham D. Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2013

ISBN

9781118452943

1118452941

9781118452936

1118452933

9781299187283

1299187285

9781118452929

1118452925

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (562 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HutchingsIan M

MartinGraham (Graham Dagnall)

Disciplina

620.1/06

Soggetti

Microfluidics

Microfabrication

Ink-jet printing

Three-dimensional printing

Coating processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Micro-Electro-Mechanical (MEMS) -- Conductive tracks and passive electronics -- Printed circuit board fabrication -- Active electronics -- Flat-panel Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) displays : a case study -- Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) manufacturing : a case study -- Biopolymers and cells -- Tissue engineering : a case study -- Three-dimensional digital fabrication -- Current inkjet technology and future directions.



Sommario/riassunto

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 materials (including living cells) to be patterned on to substrates under precise digital control. This approach offers huge potential advantages for manufacturing, since inkjet methods can be used to generate structures and functions which cannot be attained in other ways.  Beginning with an ov