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Spray and Inkjet Printing of Hybrid Nanoparticle-Metal-Organic Inks for Ag and Cu Metallizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

C. J. Curtis ,
D. L. Schulz ,
A. Miedaner ,
J. Alleman ,
T. Rivkin ,
J. D. Perkin  and
D. S. Ginley
C. J. Curtis
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393
D. L. Schulz
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393
A. Miedaner
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393
J. Alleman
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393
T. Rivkin
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393
J. D. Perkin
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393
D. S. Ginley
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393
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Abstract

Metal-organic and hybrid metal-organic/metal nanoparticle inkswere evaluated for use in the inkjet printing of copper and silver conducting lines. Pure, smooth, dense, highly conductive coatings were produced by spray printing with (hexafluoroacetylacetonato)copper(I)-vinyltrimethylsilane Cu(hfa)·VTMS) and (hexafluoroacetylacetonato)silver(I)(1,5-cyclooctadiene) (Ag(hfa)COD) metal-organic precursors on heated substrates. Good adhesion to the substrates tested, glass, Kapton tape and Si, has been achieved without use of adhesion promoters. The silver metal-organic ink has also beenused to print metal lines and patterns with a commercial inkjet printer. Hybrid inks comprised of metal nanoparticles mixed with the metal-organic complexes above have also been used to deposit Cu and Ag films by spray printing.This approach gives dense, adherent films that are much thicker than those obtained using the metal-organic inks alone. The conductivities of the silvercoatings obtained by both approaches are near that of bulk silver (2 μΩ·cm). The copper coatings had conductivities at least an order ofmagnitude less than bulk.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 676: Symposium Y – Synthesis, Functional Properties and Applications of Nanostructures , 2001 , Y8.6
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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