Xerox announced Friday that is has developed a high-performance, semiconductive ink that can be used to print the semiconductor channels of transistors at low temperatures and in open air – the two key requirements for low-cost manufacturing. Up until now, most similar materials have required high temperatures and inert atmospheres.
The Xerox Research Centre of Canada has also developed materials for printing the conductor and the dielectric components. This means that all three elements necessary to make a plastic circuit – a semiconductor, a conductor and dielectric – may now be printed using inkjet techniques, bringing the age of “flexible roll-up television screens and computer displays” another step closer …
See the Press Release for more information on how Xerox has been able to inkjet print active-matrix addressed arrays as backplane switching circuits for displays, and in cooperation with Motorola, is fabricating plastic circuits for various applications using commercial printing technology.
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