A Comparison of IJ Printed Conductors to Conventional Processes

There is considerable interest in the use of low temperature nano-particle inks for printing of electronic features for applications such as RFID and displays. In this presentation we will compare the performance of these IJ printed inks to convention processes such as etched copper and screen printed silver.

Mr. Chuck Edwards is the General Manager for Cabot Corporation's Printable Electronics and Displays Business (Cabot PEDs). Mr. Edwards has more than 20 years of senior management experience in the digital imaging and electronics industries. Prior to joining Cabot, Mr. Edwards was President of Litrex in Pleasanton, CA, a leading producer of high-precision inkjet equipment used to manufacture flat panel displays. He also served as Vice President of Marketing at RasterGraphics, (now OCE), a leading manufacturer of large format inkjet and electrostatic printers located in San Jose, CA. Mr. Edwards was also Founder and President of Onyx Graphics in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he developed PosterShop™ software used in commercial digital color printing. He has also worked at Synopsis and Intel.

Cabot Printable Electronics and Displays (Cabot PEDs, www.cabot-peds.com), a business unit of Cabot Corporation, manufactures electronic inks and materials for printing low-cost electronics and flat panel displays. Cabot Corporation is a $1.9BN, 125-year old fine particles and specialty chemicals company with 4200 employees and facilities in over 20 countries. Cabot PEDs is developing and manufacturing conductor, resistor and dielectric materials and inks for analog and digital (inkjet) printing systems for the production of low-cost electronics and displays such as RFID tags, polymer electronics, smart packaging and plasma and liquid crystal displays. Cabot PEDs has recently released its first product, an Inkjet Printable Silver Conductor. This material can be inkjet-printed with 100% reliability. It adheres well to various substrates, requires a low-processing temperature and has low-resistivity.