合资企业（在美国打印机巨头Xerox和日本摄影公司Fuji Photo Film之间形成）将印刷的电子产品视为其未来，并开始探索它可能提供的所有可能性，从3D打印电子设备作为单个单元开始。
打印嵌入式芯片结合了两种最热门的新技术。首先，如果您定期阅读3DPI，即使在其其他添加剂制造的名称下，您也可能会非常熟悉。另一个与印刷电子产品有关，这是施乐首先开发的能力 - 使用用作导体，电阻器和半导体的油墨创建和打印电路。
Xerox’s studies have shown that the best material to use for electronic ink is silver: it is a better conductor than copper and if it can be made into nanometric particles (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter), it melts at less than 140°C. That means it can be printed by a normal inkjet 2D printer with the potential to adapt it for a 3D printer.
This process will one day allow us to create electronic devices as single units through 3D printing. Each unit will include antennae, screen circuits, connectors and touch screen parts but the biggest challenge will be to 3D print its “brains”: the electronic chips that contain millions of transistors in a square millimeter. Nowdays these processors are mass-produced through extremely expensive machines, using silicone. As difficult as it may be, Xerox now thinks that 3D printing embedded chips is a lucrative business and is set on developing it further.
“3 d印制技术将改变我们的世界”,说tephen Ball, Fuji Xerox’s marketing manager, during the last annual Innovate event. “Printed chips could be inserted into different media and have a tremendous commercial potential that we need to explore further. Innovation – concluded Ball – is part of Fuji Xerox. It is who we are and what we’ve always been.”
Even allowing that they are not the first to announce developments in this area —there was the introduction of theEX1而且最近几周关于Camtek的消息传播了 - 您不会押注富士施乐开发项目背后的力量。
Source:Crn.com.au
