Direct-Write Technologies for Rapid Prototyping Applications

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.

1. Introduction to Direct-Write Technologies for Rapid Prototyping 2. Overview of Commercial and Military Application Areas in Passive and Active Electronic Devices 3. Role of Direct-Write Tools and Technologies for Microelectronic Manufacturing 4. Direct-Write Materials and Layers for Electrochemical Power Devices 5. The Role of Direct Writing for Chemical and Biological Materials: Commercial and Military Sensing Applications 6. Advanced Materials Systems for Ultra-Low-Temperature, Digital, Direct-Write Technologies 7. Direct Write Using Ink-Jet Techniques 8. Micropen Printing of Electronic Components 9. Direct Write Thermal Spraying of Multilayer Electronics and Sensor Structures 10. Dip-Pen Nanolithography: Direct Writing Soft Structures on the Sub-100-Nanometer-Length Scale 11. Nanolithography with Electron Beams: Theory and Practice 12. Focused Ion Beams for Direct Writing 13. Laser Direct-Write Micromachining 14. 3D Microengineering via Laser Direct-Write Processing Approaches 15. Flow- and Laser-Guided Direct Write of Electronic and Biological Components 16. Laser-Induced Forward Transfer: An Approach to Single-Step Microfabrication 17. Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation-Direct Write (MAPLE-DW): A New Method to Rapidly Prototype Organic and Inorganic Materials 18. Technologies for Micrometer and Nanometer Pattern and Material Transfer Appendix A: Ancillary Techniques Index