Carbon Nanotube Areas — Printed on Textile and Paper Substrates

Foldable Printed Circuit Boards on Paper Substrates

This paper describes several low-cost methods for fabricating flexible electronic circuits on paper. The circuits comprise i) metallic wires (e.g., tin or zinc) that are deposited on the substrate by evaporation, sputtering, or airbrushing, and ii) discrete surface-mountable electronic components that are fastened with conductive adhesive directly to the wires. These electronic circuits—like co...

Contacting paper-based supercapacitors to printed electronics on paper substrates

Fully printed, high performance carbon nanotube thin-film transistors on flexible substrates.

Fully printed transistors are a key component of ubiquitous flexible electronics. In this work, the advantages of an inverse gravure printing technique and the solution processing of semiconductor-enriched single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are combined to fabricate fully printed thin-film transistors on mechanically flexible substrates. The fully printed transistors are configured in a top...

Printed Carbon Nanotube Electronics and Sensor Systems.

Printing technologies offer large-area, high-throughput production capabilities for electronics and sensors on mechanically flexible substrates that can conformally cover different surfaces. These capabilities enable a wide range of new applications such as low-cost disposable electronics for health monitoring and wearables, extremely large format electronic displays, interactive wallpapers, an...

Evaluation of Flexographically Printed Conductive Traces on Paper Substrates

Results of print trials of different silver-based conducting inks on different paper and paperboard substrates are presented. Printability (based on optical appearance) and electrical properties are analyzed for their dependence on substrate properties. In particular, it was observed that traces printed with solvent-based inks have better print quality compared to water-based inks at higher ani...