Self-aligned inkjet printing of resistors and low-pass resistor-capacitor filters on roll-to-roll imprinted plastics with resistances ranging from 10 to 10⁶ Ω

TY - JOUR

T1 - Self-aligned inkjet printing of resistors and low-pass resistor-capacitor filters on roll-to-roll imprinted plastics with resistances ranging from 10 to 106 Ω

AU - Cao, Motao

AU - Jochem, Krystopher

AU - Hyun, Woo Jin

AU - Francis, Lorraine F.

AU - Frisbie, C. Daniel

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd.

PY - 2018/12

Y1 - 2018/12

N2 - Resistors are essential and ubiquitous building blocks in electronic circuits. Fabrication of printed resistors in a manner compatible with roll-to-roll printing is important for realizing low-cost and high-throughput production of electronic devices. Here we present fully printed resistors fabricated via a novel self-aligned printing method, termed self-aligned capillarity-assisted lithography for electronics (SCALE). Flexible substrates with imprinted features such as reservoirs and capillary channels were prepared by roll-to-roll processing. Functional inks were then delivered sequentially into the reservoirs by inkjet printing and the ink flowed spontaneously into the adjoining channels driven by capillarity. Poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) was used as the resistive material, and silver was used for the electrodes. Using SCALE, we achieved fully inkjet-printed, self-aligned resistors with resistance values ranging over five orders of magnitude while keeping the overall dimensions of the devices constant. We then employed SCALE to build low-pass resistor-capacitor filters with cutoff frequency from 0.4 to 27 kHz and excellent operational stability. Overall, this work expands the potential of self-aligned inkjet printing for producing fully printed electronic circuits.

AB - Resistors are essential and ubiquitous building blocks in electronic circuits. Fabrication of printed resistors in a manner compatible with roll-to-roll printing is important for realizing low-cost and high-throughput production of electronic devices. Here we present fully printed resistors fabricated via a novel self-aligned printing method, termed self-aligned capillarity-assisted lithography for electronics (SCALE). Flexible substrates with imprinted features such as reservoirs and capillary channels were prepared by roll-to-roll processing. Functional inks were then delivered sequentially into the reservoirs by inkjet printing and the ink flowed spontaneously into the adjoining channels driven by capillarity. Poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) was used as the resistive material, and silver was used for the electrodes. Using SCALE, we achieved fully inkjet-printed, self-aligned resistors with resistance values ranging over five orders of magnitude while keeping the overall dimensions of the devices constant. We then employed SCALE to build low-pass resistor-capacitor filters with cutoff frequency from 0.4 to 27 kHz and excellent operational stability. Overall, this work expands the potential of self-aligned inkjet printing for producing fully printed electronic circuits.

KW - PEDOT:PSS

KW - RC filter

KW - flexible electronics

KW - inkjet printing

KW - resistors

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U2 - 10.1088/2058-8585/aaeb6c

DO - 10.1088/2058-8585/aaeb6c

M3 - 文章

AN - SCOPUS:85059252282

SN - 2058-8585

VL - 3

JO - Flexible and Printed Electronics

JF - Flexible and Printed Electronics

IS - 4

M1 - 045003

ER -