High‐Resolution Electronics: Spontaneous Patterning of High‐Resolution Electronics via Parallel Vacuum Ultraviolet (Adv. Mater. 31/2016). Issue 31 (August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Xuying; Kanehara, Masayuki; Liu, Chuan; Sakamoto, Kenji; Yasuda, Takeshi; Takeya, Jun; Minari, Takeo
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 28:Issue 31(2016)
• Page Start: 6768
• Page End: 6768
• Publication Date: 2016-08
• Subjects: Au nanoparticle ink -- organic thin‐film transistors -- parallel vacuum ultraviolet -- patterning; Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201670218
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

Abstract : On page 6568, T. Minari and co‐workers describe spontaneous patterning based on the parallel vacuum ultraviolet (PVUV) technique, enabling the homogeneous integration of complex, high‐resolution electronic circuits, even on large‐scale, flexible, transparent substrates. Irradiation of PVUV to the hydrophobic polymer surface precisely renders the selected surface into highly wettable regions with sharply defined boundaries, which spontaneously guides a metal nanoparticle ink into a series of circuit lines and gaps with the widths down to a resolution of 1 μm.