Academic Press, 2002. — 726 p.
Direct-Write Technologies covers applications, materials, and the techniques in using direct-write technologies. This book provides an overview of the different direct write techniques currently available, as well as a comparison between the strengths and special attributes for each of the techniques. The techniques described open the door for building prototypes and testing materials. The book also provides an overview of the state-of-the-art technology involved in this field. Basic academic researchers and industrial development engineers who pattern thin film materials will want to have this text on their shelves as a resource for specific applications. Others in this or related fields will want the book to read the introductory material summarizing isuses common to all approaches, in order to compare and contrast different techniques. Everyday applications include electronic components and sensors, especially chemical and biosensors.
There is a wide range of research and development problems requiring state-of-the-art direct write tools. This book will appeal to basic researchers and development engineers in university engineering departments and at industrial and national research laboratories. This text should appeal equally well in the United States, Asia, and Europe.
Both basic academic researchers and industrial development engineers who pattern thin film materials will want to have this text on their shelves as a resource for specific applications.
This book provides: an overview of the different direct write techniques currently available; a comparison between the strengths and special attributes for each of the techniques; an overview of the state-of-the-art technology involved in this field.Contents
Preface;
Contributors;
Introduction to direct-write technologies for rapid prototyping;
Part I. Applications:
Overview of commercial and military application areas in passive and active electronic devices;
Role of direct-write tools and technologies for microelectronic manufacturing;
Direct-write materials and layers for electrochemical power devices;
The role of direct writing for chemical and biological materials: commercial and military sensing applications;
Part II. Materials:
Advanced materials systems for ultra-low-temperature, digital, direct-write technologies;
Part III. Direct-Write Techniques:
Direct write using ink-jet techniques;
Micropen printing of electronic components;
Direct write thermal spraying of multilayer electronics and sensor structures;
Dip-pen nanolithography: direct writing soft structures on the sub-100-nanometer-length scale;
Nanolithography with electron beams: theory and practice
Focused ion beams for direct writing;
Laser direct-write micromachining;
3D microengineering via laser direct-write processing approaches;
Flow- and laser-guided direct write of electronic and biological components;
Laser-induced forward transfer: an approach to single-step microfabrication;
Matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation-direct write (MAPLE-DW): a new method to rapidly prototype organic and inorganic materials;
Part IV. Comparison to Other Approaches to Pattern Material:
Technologies for micrometer and nanometer pattern and material transfer;
Appendix A. Ancillary techniques;
Index.
