More Info about Conductive Ink

In the 1920's Charles Ducas filed for a patent creating a technique of printing an electric circuit on an insulated surface using conductive ink. The name "printed circuit" became popular as a result of this patented process. With the arrival of transistors circuit boards became practical as smaller circuit component size reduced the overall weight and size of electrical gizmos.

Conductive inks permit circuits to be published by a machine on a range of materials. It is considerably faster and cheaper than traditional etching methods. Printing is a totally additive process and creates little or no waste material. Printed circuit boards are ready to be used after a short drying period and require nominal cleaning after printing.

Flexible printed solar cell technology permits solar panels printed with flexible conductive ink. These panels can then be fashioned into form fit solar energy panels worn by infantrymen as energy source for GPS systems and other electronics devices. Army solar power cell paneled tents can also become portable power sources for device recharging stations.

Multi layered circuit boards were introduced in 1961 and the resulting increase in part density needed even smaller circuit design and improvements in conductive ink application followed. Integrated circuit chips needed even more precise methods of creating circuits. Circuit boards are being reduced in size by the ability of nano conductive inks applied by inkjet nozzles down to molecular levels.

Printed circuit lithography will shortly produce printable parts such as transistors and capacitors. Strategies have recently been introduced which will print out nano sized parts using ( CNT ) carbon nano ink. Paper substrate based batteries using silver and carbon nano tube ink that discharge and recharge rapidly have already been produced in research laboratories. These advancements will create a period of inexpensive easily made energy storage.


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