Room-temperature plasma-assisted inkjet printing of highly conductive silver on paper
C. E. Knapp, J.-B. Chemin, S. P. Douglas, D. A. Ondo, J. Guillot, P. Choquet, and N. D. Boscher
Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 3, no. 3, art. no. 1700326, 2018
For the first time, the plasma-assisted inkjet printing of metal-organic decomposition (MOD) inks is demonstrated to provide an easily up-scalable method toward the deposition of highly conductive silver features on paper. Atmospheric plasma sintering methods provide a fast and effective alternative to thermal treatment. This high-speed, room-temperature approach ensures the immediate conversion of the MOD inks after printing and thus overcomes wetting issues typically encountered in porous substrates—a mechanical solution to a chemical problem.