Currently, printed electronics are manufactured by wet printing technologies such as inkjet and aerosol jet printers, which suffer from major drawbacks, including complex and expensive ink formulations, surfactants/contaminants, limited sources of inks, and the need for high-temperature post-processing. This talk will present a novel additive nanomanufacturing and dry printing technology for multimaterial printing of electronics, sensors, and energy devices. This technology allows in-situ and on-demand generation of various pure nanoparticles (metals, semiconductors, insulators, etc) in the printer head that are then directed toward the printer nozzle and laser-sintered in real-time to form desired patterns and structures layer-by-layer.
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