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Air Force Research Lab Awards Optomec Contract to Advance Fully Printed Transistor Technology

Multi-Material Printing System will expand applications for flexible electronics

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Optomec announced that the company was awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to advance its Aerosol Jet technology for printed electronics. Under the contract, Optomec will enhance its Aerosol Jet technology to enable large area printing of high performance carbon nanotube (CNT) based thin film transistors (TFTs), thereby expanding the application space for flexible electronics. The main challenge limiting high volume flexible electronic applications is the lack of a room te...

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