Screen Printed Electrodes

Printable electronics- an additive manufacturing technology combines electronic materials with conventional printing process to enable large area, flexible, and/or low- cost manufacturing of membrane switches, thin film transistors, and sensors as well as photovoltaics, antennas and (OLED) Organic light emitting diode based displays.

Conductive inks make up one of the largest markets in printed electronics as they enable the fabrication of key elements such as antennas, electrodes and bus bars for collectors using screen printing, aerosol, inkjet etc.

The printed electronics industry is driven, in part, by a desire to exploit additive manufacturing to reduce cost, and simply decreasing the silver content and the resulting trace thickness. In SPE modifications are applied to working electrode. Counter electrode is made of Carbon. Reference electrode is made of silver. The Screen Printed Carbon Electrodes are modified with electrochemical mediators and nanomaterials, among others.

Due to the various material properties of SPE, such as simplicity, disposability and rapid responses SPE have been successfully utilized for various applications like Environmental Pollutants, Biosensors, Transistors, Displays etc.

The ink serves as a platform technology where all of the required components from screen printable ink can be incorporated into inks compatible with Inkjet, Screen Printing, and Aerosol Spray enabling many applications and devices under development in printable electronics.