Printable silver nanowire ink enables transparent and flexible conductive patterns
When used in combination with a photonic curing process, the ink enables highly stable, transparent conductive patterns to be formed on flexible films.
The silver nanowire ink can produce transparent conductive films with low sheet resistance (electrical resistance measured in thin film with uniform thickness). Thus, the ink is expected to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent conductive film for touch screen applications. The problem with conventional silver nanowire inks is that the application of a printing process is difficult due to the ink properties and the high temperature annealing and etching processes that are often necessary after coating, making it difficult to use these inks on plastic substrates. However, SDK’s formulation is suitable to be cured with NovaCentrix’ photonic curing process.
SDK has also developed copper/silver hybrid ink. While silver ink is already used widely, it is expensive and suffers from a substantial degree of migration (movement of metals on the surface of or inside a nonmetallic medium, resulting in short circuit). SDK’s new hybrid ink is obtained by adding a small amount of silver nanoparticles to copper nanoparticles. When used in combination with the photonic curing process, printed patterns provide a high conductivity similar to that of silver-ink-based patterns despite the high copper content. At the same time, migration is restricted to a low level. The hybrid ink can be used as a low-cost substitute for conventional silver ink and paste.
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