Publications related to Printmaking

Carbon based printed electrodes for DEAs: study of pad, inkjet, and stencil printing

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Armando Matthieu Walter, Simon Holzer

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have raised interest due to their remarkable capabilities in various applications, such as soft robotics, haptic feedback systems, and biomedical devices. To harness the full potential of DEAs, the choice of the electr ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2024

Nanoliter Liquid Packaging in a Bioresorbable Microsystem by Additive Manufacturing and its Application as a Controlled Drug Delivery Device

Jürgen Brugger, Arnaud Bertsch, Cristina Martin Olmos, Jongeon Park

Precise packaging of nanoliter amounts of liquid in a microsystem is important for many biomedical applications. However, existing liquid encapsulation technologies have limitations in terms of liquid waste, evaporation, trapped bubbles, and liquid degrada ...

2023

Print-Light-Synthesis of Gold Thin Film Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensing

Horst Pick, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Emanuela Maiorano

The one-step fabrication of gold films by inkjet printing of a gold precursor ink and its photochemical reduction by exposure to UV light is presented. Inkjet printing creates on a substrate with high control micrometer-thin reaction volumes in which upon ...

Wiley2023

Printed degradable piezoelectric microsystems: From ink formulation to device fabrication and characterization

Morgan Mc Kay Monroe

As the world moves further and further into the semiconductor era, the amount of waste generated from electronics ("e-waste") is increasing rapidly and unsustainably. Of particular note, alternatives to lead-based piezoelectric materials must be establishe ...

EPFL2023

Additive and digital manufacturing of transient sensors and bioelectronics

Nicolas Francis Fumeaux

Transient electronics have emerged as a promising class of devices, capable of breaking down without harmful side effects to their environment. They have tremendous potential as bioresorbable electronics for temporary applications in the human body, and as ...

EPFL2023

Reusable support for additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) processes such as material extrusion and vat photopolymerization all require supports to print parts with overhang features. These additional supports using the same or different materials are a waste of materials since they nee ...

2021

All-Printed Electrocorticography Array for In Vivo Neural Recordings

Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda, Laura Ferlauto, Fabian Michael Lütolf, Nenad Marjanovic

Bioelectronic and neuroprosthetic interfaces rely on implanted microelectrode arrays (MEAs) to interact with the human body. Printing techniques, such as inkjet and screen printing, are attractive methods for the manufacturing of MEAs because they allow fl ...

2020

Fully 3D Printed Mechanical Pressure Sensors: A Comparison of Sensing Mechanisms

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen, Julien Gaëtan Berger

Recent advances in 3D printing techniques are allowing for new ways to manufacture sensors with materials and geometries previously not exploited. In this work we present a fabrication approach for fully 3D printed soft mechanical pressure sensors, as well ...

IEEE2020

Implementation of Functional Microfluidic Dispensing Tools Enabling Enhanced Control in Extrusion Bioprinting

Ludovic Serex

Inspired from additive manufacturing's success, the structuring of biocompatible materials through bioprinting has become a growing field of research in the past fifteen years. It opened the door to a plethora of applications ranging from the fabrication o ...

EPFL2019

Inkjet Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Measuring Pyocyaninand Uric Acid in a Wound Fluid Simulant and Culture Media

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic

Polyacrylamide-coated, carbon nanotube (PA/CNT)electrodes were prepared by an ink-jet printing process and used to measure pyocyanin and uric acid in a wound fluid simulant at 37 oC.These two moleculesare potential indicators of infection and therefore the ...

2019

Printing sub-micron structures using Talbot mask-aligner lithography with a 193 nm CW laser light source

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner, Andreas Vetter

A continuous improvement of resolution in mask-aligner lithography is sought after to meet the requirements of an ever decreasing minimum feature size in back-end processes. For periodic structures, utilizing the Talbot effect for lithography has emerged a ...

2018

Color changing effects with cross-halftone prints

Roger Hersch, Petar Pjanic

We propose new methods for creating color varying prints with classical cyan, magenta, yellow inks on a metallic specularly reflecting or on a white diffusely reflecting substrate. We use a special cross-line halftone with optimized surface coverages of th ...

2017

Color changing effects with cross-halftone prints on metal

Roger Hersch, Petar Pjanic

We propose new methods for creating color varying prints with classical cyan, magenta, yellow inks on a metallic substrate. We use a special crossline halftone with optimized surface coverages of the inks to create color prints on a metallic surface whose ...

2017

Unified rule based correction for corners in proximity lithography mask using high resolution features

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Krishnaparvathy Puthankovilakam

Printing industry and printing techniques are increasing its market value by new methodologies. The resolution and accuracy of the pattern transfer is always a challenge for the industry, especially for the proximity printing industries which use mask alig ...

Elsevier2017

Dye-sensitized solar cells with inkjet-printed dyes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Syed Ghufran Hashmi

The slow process in which the light absorbing dye molecules are adsorbed from solution on the nano-crystalline TiO2 photoelectrode film has been a handicap to the fast and cost-effective fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) using printing tech ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

W-Band Waveguide Filters Fabricated by Laser Micromachining and 3-D Printing

Emile Jacques de Rijk, Mathieu Billod, Cheng Guo

This paper presents two W-band waveguide bandpass filters, one fabricated using laser micromachining and the other 3-D printing. Both filters are based on coupled resonators and are designed to have a Chebyshev response. The first filter is for laser micro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Properties and Printability of Inkjet and Screen-Printed Silver Patterns for RFID Antennas

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Jinyu Jason Ruan, Francisco Molina Lopez

We report the modeling, and geometrical and electrical characterization, of inkjet and screen-printed patterns on different polymeric substrates for use as antennas in radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications. We compared the physical and electri ...

Springer Verlag2014

Beating Shapes Relying on Moire Level Lines

Roger Hersch, Sylvain Chosson

We consider the problem of obtaining a recognizable shape as superposition moire of two line gratings. The method we propose generates moire lines located between the shape foreground and background centers and the shape boundaries. Upon relative displacem ...

Association for Computing Machinery2014

Simple and easily controllable parabolic-shaped microlenses printed on polymeric mesas

Jürgen Brugger, Joo Yeon Kim, Cristina Martin Olmos

A simple and easy shape-controllable approach is demonstrated for the fabrication of parabolic-shaped polymer microlenses (mu-lenses), which are widely used in bio-imaging systems such as microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip systems for improving the image quali ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Directly fabricated multi-scale microlens arrays on a hydrophobic flat surface by a simple ink-jet printing technique

Jürgen Brugger, Joo Yeon Kim

A shape-tunable approach is demonstrated for the fabrication of multi-scale polymer microlenses ([small mu ]-lenses) and microlens arrays (MLAs) using an ink-jet printing (IJP) technique. Also, the influence of the surface wetting conditions on the geometr ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012