T. Valayil Varghese
INFlex labs. LLC, Idaho, United States
Keywords: Additive manufacturing, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology
Today, additive manufacturing is transforming the conventional manufacturing industry to be more efficient and cost effective. In order to reap the full potential of this technology, a pivotal upturn in material development is long overdue. Most additive manufacturing tools, especially for additive manufacturing of electronics and sensors, are limited to only one or two conductive materials (e.g. Silver & Copper). This bottleneck in material availability is hindering the growth of this technology and increasing dependency of microelectronics research and commercialization on expensive and complex cleanroom facilities. This makes the entire manufacturing process very time-consuming while also losing design flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness offered by additive electronics manufacturing technologies. Inflex Labs, wants to address this lack of nanomaterial inks availability for the additive electronics manufacturing industry, by providing an innovative line of multi-jet inks. The library of nanomaterial inks includes noble metal inks, MXenes, 2D TMD’s and thermoelectric inks. Multi-printer compatibility offered by our inks provide seamless integration between high precision printing and high-speed printing. The rheological properties of the nanomaterial inks are tailored to major jetting platforms including aerosol jet printing, plasma jet, electrohydrodynamic jet, and ink jet printers