Publications related to Dot matrix printing

The physics of 3D printing with light

The goal of 3D printing is to realize complex 3D structures by locally adding material in small volume elements called voxels - in contrast to successively subtracting material by etching, milling or machining. This field started with optics-based proposal ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Assembling Ni-Fe Layered Double Hydroxide 2D Thin Films for Oxygen Evolution Electrodes

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Victor Costa Bassetto, Massimo Rosa

Continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis (CHFS) of Ni-Fe layered double hydroxide (LDH) leads to waterborne dispersions of 2D nanoplatelets in the range of 10-50 nm in lateral size. Conversion of the as-synthesized LDH nanoplatelet dispersion into inkjet pri ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

All-printed low-power metal oxide gas sensors on polymeric substrates

Danick Briand, Saleem Khan

This paper presents a novel approach for the fabrication of miniaturized and fully printed metal-oxide (MOX) gas sensors on a polyimide (PI) substrate by using digital manufacturing of the functional layers, namely aerosol jet and inkjet printing technolog ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

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

Print-Light-Synthesis of Platinum Nanostructured Indium-Tin-Oxide Electrodes for Energy Research

Andreas Stephan Lesch

Print-light-synthesis is a new concept for the large-scale in situ fabrication of nanoparticles and structures on large substrates. Here, Pt nanoparticles are synthesized on indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass slides by using combined inkjet printing and p ...

Wiley2018

Compact laser-assisted tools for high-resolution additive manufacturing

Paul Delrot

Micro-additive manufacturing has become an enabling technology in biomedical research as it allows for instance creating functional microstructures or studying cellular interactions at the microscale. Among the various manufacturing techniques laser-actuat ...

EPFL2018

Rapid inkjet printing of high catalytic activity Co3O4 /N-rGO layers for oxygen reduction reaction

Hubert Girault, Victor Costa Bassetto, Emad Oveisi, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Véronique Amstutz

The accurate and reproducible large-scale production of catalyst layers containing low-cost, abundant electrocatalysts gains in importance. Herein, pivotal factors are discussed that need to be considered when a combined inkjet printing and photonic curing ...

2018

Inkjet Printing of Viscous Monodisperse Microdroplets by Laser-Induced Flow Focusing

Demetri Psaltis, François Gallaire, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The on-demand generation of viscous microdroplets to print functional or biological materials remains challenging using conventional inkjet-printing methods, mainly due to aggregation and clogging issues. In an effort to overcome these limitations, we impl ...

American Physical Society (APS)2016

Complex light in 3D printing

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Edgar Emilio Morales Delgado

3D printing as a tool to generate complicated shapes from CAD files, on demand, with different materials from plastics to metals, is shortening product development cycles, enabling new design possibilities and can provide a mean to manufacture small volume ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Laser-assisted inkjet printing of highly viscous fluids with sub-nozzle resolution

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Miguel Antonio Modestino

Drop-on-demand inkjet printing is mostly based on thermal and piezo-actuation, allowing for densely packed nozzles in inkjet printers. However, the droplet diameter is typically defined by the nozzle diameter, thus limiting the range of viscosity that can ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Inkjet Printing Meets Electrochemical Energy Conversion

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Véronique Amstutz, Victor Costa Bassetto

Inkjet printing is a very powerful digital and mask-less microfabrication technique that has attracted the attention of several research groups working on electrochemical energy conversion concepts. In this short review, an overview is given about recent e ...

2015

A New Anti-Counterfeiting Feature Relying on Invisible Luminescent Full Color Images Printed with Lanthanide-Based Inks

Roger Hersch, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Julien Alexandre Andres

Europium and terbium trisdipicolinate complexes are inkjet printed onto paper with commercially available desktop inkjet printers. Together with a commercial blue luminescent ink, the red-emitting luminescent ink containing europium and the green-emitting ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

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

Fully Inkjet-Printed Parallel-Plate Capacitive Gas Sensors on Flexible Substrate

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Francisco Molina Lopez

Small fully inkjet-printed gas sensors based on capacitive parallel-plate (PP) structures have been realized on flexible plastic foil and characterized. A gas sensing layer was inkjet-printed between inkjet-printed bottom and top silver electrodes. Compare ...

Ieee2012

Stencil Lithography and Inkjet Printing as New Tools for Life Sciences Research

Kristopher Pataky

This thesis work focuses on applying microtechnology to produce three toolkits for life-sciences research. The first technique presented is nanostencil lithography for patterning cell adhesions. Nanostencil lithography is a shadow-mask micro and nanopatter ...

EPFL2011

Hybrid polymer microlens arrays with high numerical apertures fabricated using simple ink-jet printing technique

Jürgen Brugger, Edoardo Charbon, Vahid Fakhfouri, Dmitri Boiko, Joo Yeon Kim, Nils Benedict Brauer

Microlens arrays fabricated by a direct ink-jet printing of UV-curable hybrid polymer are reported. A periodic pattern of polymer drops was ink-jet printed on the surface-treated glass substrate and cured in the UV-light. Using this simple technique, we de ...

2011

High-Fidelity Printing Strategies for Printing 3D Vascular Hydrogel Structures

Jürgen Brugger, Philippe Renaud, Matthias Lütolf, Kristopher Pataky, Thomas Michael Braschler

Vascularization arguably poses the most significant hurdle for the success of most biomaterials-based tissue engineering therapies. In this work, we report two printing strategies that permit the 3D Inkjet printing of fluorescent alginate hydro gels into o ...

Soc Imaging Science & Technology, 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, Va 22151 Usa2009

Reflectance and transmittance model for recto-verso halftone prints: spectral predictions with multi-ink halftones

Roger Hersch, Mathieu Hébert

We extend a previously proposed spectral reflectance and transmittance prediction model for recto-verso prints to the case of multi-ink halftones. The model takes into account the multiple reflections and the lateral propagation of light within the paper s ...

2009

Inkjet printing and high aspect ratio structuring for polymer-based micro and nano systems

Vahid Fakhfouri

Inkjet printing of functional materials, photolithography and micromolding are 3 different techniques largely used in the field of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) with increasing interest for the fabrication of new devices and the development of new ...

EPFL2008

Color images visible under UV light

Roger Hersch, Sylvain Chosson, Philipp Donzé

The present contribution aims at creating color images printed with fluorescent inks that are only visible under UV light. The considered fluorescent inks absorb light in the UV wavelength range and reemit part of it in the visible wavelength range. In con ...

2007