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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Manufacturing Technology

Background:

  • Screen printing is a key technique in printed electronics, valued for its simplicity and scalability.
  • Advancements in metallization pastes and screens, driven by the photovoltaic industry, enable finer feature sizes.
  • Digital printing techniques like inkjet offer narrower lines, challenging traditional screen printing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the printing resolution of high-performance stainless-steel screens with various conductive inks.
  • To assess the feasibility of achieving fine line resolutions below 50 μm for mass production.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a high-performance stainless-steel screen for printing.
  • Tested commercial conductive inks and lab-made reduced graphene oxide inks.
  • Employed an interdigitated structure to measure printing resolution.

Main Results:

  • Achieved electrically conductive functional patterns with a minimum printing resolution of 40 μm for all tested inks.
  • Demonstrated the capability of screen printing to produce fine lines competitive with digital methods.

Conclusions:

  • High-performance stainless-steel screens enable fine-line screen printing of conductive patterns down to 40 μm.
  • Screen printing remains a viable and effective technique for producing high-resolution printed electronics.
  • This research supports the adoption of finer feature sizes in the mass production of printed electronic devices.