Planar and Three-Dimensional Printing of Conductive Inks

JoVE 3189 12/09/2011

Bok Yeop Ahn¹, Steven B. Walker¹, Scott C. Slimmer¹, Analisa Russo¹, Ashley Gupta¹, Steve Kranz¹, Eric B. Duoss^1,2, Thomas F. Malkowski^1,3, Jennifer A. Lewis¹

¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ²Center for Micro- and Nanotechnology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ³Presently at the Interdisciplinary Center for Wide Band-gap Semiconductors, University Of California Santa Barbara

Planar and three-dimensional printing of conductive metallic inks is described. Our approach provides new avenues for fabricating printed electronic, optoelectronic, and biomedical devices in unusual layouts at the microscale.