- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributor contact details
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
- Dedication
- Preface
- Part I: Materials and properties of printed films
- Chapter 1: Technologies for printed films
- Chapter 2: Materials for printed films
- Chapter 3: Materials Science concepts for printed films
- Abstract:
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Interactions of conducting materials with the organic vehicle at room temperature
- 3.3 Redox reactions
- 3.4 Chemical diffusion-related interactions during the firing cycle
- 3.5 Sintering, grain growth and Ostwald ripening
- 3.6 Reactivity interactions in other systems
- 3.7 The Kirkendall effect
- 3.8 Conclusions and future trends
- Chapter 4: Properties of printed films as electrical components and metallization of solar cells
- Chapter 5: Conduction mechanisms in printed thick-film resistors
- Chapter 6: Multilayer low-temperature co-fired ceramic systems incorporating a thick-film printing process
- Part II: Applications of printed films in devices
- Chapter 7: Printed resistive sensors for physical quantities
- Chapter 8: Printed thick-film capacitive sensors
- Abstract:
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 General concepts
- 8.3 Configurations and technologies
- 8.4 Capacitive sensing based on geometrical variations
- 8.5 Capacitive sensing based on permittivity variations
- 8.6 Examples of devices and their applications
- 8.7 Conclusion and future trends
- 8.8 Sources of further information
- Chapter 9: Printed thick-film piezoelectric and pyroelectric sensors
- Abstract:
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity and ferroelectricity
- 9.3 Basic theory and relationships of the piezoelectric effect
- 9.4 Thick-films based on ferroelectric inorganic compounds
- 9.5 Piezoelectric sensors
- 9.6 Pyroelectric sensors
- 9.7 Future trends
- 9.8 Sources of further information
- 9.9 Acknowledgments
- Chapter 10: Printed thick-film mechanical microsystems (MEMS)
- Chapter 11: Printed semiconducting gas sensors
- Chapter 12: Printed gas sensors based on electrolytes
- Abstract:
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Solid electrolytes
- 12.3 Potentiometric sensors
- 12.4 Thermodynamically controlled sensors
- 12.5 Sensors controlled by both thermodynamics and kinetics
- 12.6 Amperometric sensors
- 12.7 NOx sensing device, associating upstream oxygen pumping with potentiometric and amperometric operating principles
- 12.8 Conclusion and possible future trends
- Chapter 13: Printed thick-film biosensors
- Chapter 14: Printed actuators
- Chapter 15: Printed heater elements
- Chapter 16: Screen-printing for the fabrication of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC)
- Chapter 17: Printed varistors
- Abstract:
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 The varistor action
- 17.3 Composition, preparation and microstructure of ceramic ZnO-based varistors
- 17.4 Printing process in varistors fabrication
- 17.5 Multilayer varistors
- 17.6 Screen-printed and fired thick-film varistors
- 17.7 Progress in the development of ZnO-based thick-films and tape-casted varistors
- 17.8 Microstructural and electrical characterization of ZnO-based varistors prepared by screen printing and tape casting
- 17.9 Conclusion
- 17.10 Acknowledgements
- Chapter 18: Laser-printed micro- and meso-scale power generating devices
- Abstract:
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Background to laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT)
- 18.3 Laser transfer of complex rheological systems
- 18.4 Laser-printed micro-power sources
- 18.5 Laser-printed embedded micro-power sources
- 18.6 Challenges and opportunities
- 18.7 Conclusion and future trends
- 18.8 Acknowledgements
- Chapter 19: Printed polymer solar cells
- Index
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