metallization – TechConnect Briefs

The Electrochemical Printing Technique (EPT) for Flexible Electronics

Kadija I., ECSI Fibrotools, US

Contact Electroplating Technology (CET), a novel direct contact electroplating technology, enables electrochemical deposition of desired metals or alloys on patterned flexible substrates by direct uniform contact with the substrates. The capability to electroplate metals is [...]

Improvement of Silicon Solar Cell Metallization with Printed Metal Nanoparticle Inks

Xu B., Limb S., Rodkin A., Shrader E., Garner S., PARC, a Xerox company, US

The process and quality of metallization greatly affects the performance and cost of solar cells. Screen printing of silver paste and fire-through of the silicon nitride antireflection layer is the most widely used method for [...]

Improvement of Silicon Solar Cell Metallization with Printed Metal Nanoparticle Inks

Xu B., Limb S., Rodkin A., Shrader E., Garner S., PARC, a Xerox company, US

The process and quality of metallization greatly affects the performance and cost of solar cells. Screen printing of silver paste and fire-through of the silicon nitride antireflection layer is the most widely used method for [...]

Fabrication of Microelectrodes on Polyester Membranes for Dielectrophoretic Cell Capture

Hanke C., Dittrich P.S., Reyes D.R., National Institute of Standards and Technology, US

We present a new system for cell capturing on porous polyester (PET) membranes using dielectrophoretic forces. For the first time gold microelectrodes were fabricated on PET membranes using conventional photolithographic techniques. Their characterization revealed no [...]

Mechanical Reinforcement of Epoxy Resins using Magnetic Aligned Halloysite

Mendoza-Bello S., Barrientos-Ramirez S., Montes de Oca G., Flores-Santos L., Macro-M, S.A. de C.V., MX

In this work we report the synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles using halloysite as template. Halloysite is treated using a two steps activation method (Sn/Pd) and in a third step ferrite is formed using a coprecipitation [...]

Mechanical Properties of Metallized Single Nanofibers

Kim B.S., Kim H-R., Kim H-Y, Kim I.S., Kimura N., Kimura N., Bang H-S., Kim B.S., Kim H-R., Kim H-Y, Kim I.S., Kimura N., Watanabe Y., Kim B.S., Kim H-R., Kim H-Y, Kim I.S., Kimura N., Enomoto Y., Kim B.S., Kim H-R., Kim H-Y, Kim I.S., Kimura N., Shinshu University, JP

Our final goal is to make the metal nanofibers having good properties of metal and explore the mechanical properties of metalized single nanofibers. We are expecting that they would be strong like general metals. In [...]

Electronic Structure Modifications Induced by Nanosize Lattice Imperfections in Molecular Crystals

Kuklja M.M., Michigan Technological University, US

A first-principles theoretical modeling of basic defects such as a molecular vacancy, a vacancy dimer, an edge dislocation, and a nano-crack in organic molecular crystals, particularly solid RDX (C3H6N6O6) and PETN (C5H8N4O12), is presented. It [...]