期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 13, 期 16, 页码 19271-19281出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c01890
关键词
additive printing of metal films; microscale 3D printing; electroplating; electroless plating; thin films
资金
- US National Science Foundation
- CMMI award [1727539]
- Department of Energy from UHV Technologies, Inc. [DE-SC0017233]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0017233] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
The 3D printing processes offer new routes for fabricating metallic interconnects, with the confined electrodeposition (CED) process providing advantages in controlling microstructure and printing functional metals. By combining CED with selective area electroless plating, complex thin-film patterns can be produced, improving manufacturing efficiency and reducing resistivity.
The metallic interconnects are essential components of energy devices such as fuel cells and electrolysis cells, batteries, as well as electronics and optoelectronic devices. In recent years, 3D printing processes have offered complementary routes to the conventional photolithography- and vacuum-based processes for interconnect fabrication. Among these methods, the confined electrodeposition (CED) process has enabled a great control over the microstructure of the printed metal, direct printing of high electrical conductivity (close to the bulk values) metals on flexible substrates without a need to sintering, printing alloys with controlled composition, printing functional metals for various applications including magnetic applications, and for in situ scanning electron microscope (SEM) nanomechanical experiments. However, the metal deposition rate (or the overall printing speed) of this process is reasonably slow because of the chemical nature of the process. Here, we propose using the CED process to print a single layer of a metallic trace as the seed layer for the subsequent selected-area electroless plating. By controlling the activation sites through printing by the CED process, we control, where the metal grows by electroless plating, and demonstrate the fabrication of complex thin-film patterns. Our results show that this combined process improves the processing time by more than 2 orders of magnitude compared to the layer-by-layer printing process by CED. Additionally, we obtained Cu and Ni films with an electrical resistivity as low as similar to 1.3 and similar to 2 times of the bulk Cu and Ni, respectively, without any thermal annealing. Furthermore, our quantitative experiments show that the obtained films exhibit mechanical properties close to the bulk metals with an excellent adhesion to the substrate. We demonstrate potential applications for radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, for complex printed circuit board patterns, and resistive sensors in a Petri dish for potential biological applications.
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