Keywords
printed electronics
flixible electronics
nanosilver ink
electronic technology
Abstract
The continual development of the electronics industry and elaborations of newer and newer applications make potential of printed electronics, which complements other technologies, continuously growing. Flexibility is becoming a very desirable feature which is of particular importance in many areas. For this reason technologies which were known so far in other spheres of socialeconomic activities are starting to play the substantial role; however, due to the little developed material base, they were not noticed in the electronics field. Ink jet printing presents so far in the printing industry, but it is increasing its participation in the electronics industry. The manufacturing of printed circuit boards and various other structures using this technique is currently the subject of many researches. For this reason in the presented article, the basic material base in chosen electronic applications was characterized and flexible printed electronics manufacturing processes using the mentioned technology was described. Both technological process and materials were included in the context of researches conducted in the HYBRID laboratory at Department of Electronic and Communications Systems. The technological process for the realization of RFID identifiers antenna structures using PixDro LP50 inkjet printing system was discussed as well as there were mentioned problems which are appearing in this respect. The approach presented in this article has a cognitive character and constitutes the base for further research works.
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