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Alleyne, Andrew G. Mannen, Sarah 2013-08-22T16:38:17Z 2013-08-22T16:38:17Z 2013-08 2013-08-22T16:38:17Z 2013-08 Significant interest has been developed in micro- and nano-scale manufacturing in recent years, and Electrohydrodynamic Jet (E-Jet) printing offers unique advantages over other technologies in this field. In this thesis, we describe two individual improvements to E-jet printing which will increase its capabilities for micro- and nano-scale manufacturing. First, an investigation into new silver nanoparticle inks for use in electronics printing yielded 4-20 µm lines with resistivities around ten times that of bulk silver. The printed performance is demonstrated to be promising for microscale additive manufacturing. Specific obstacles and solutions unique to E-jet printing of conductive inks which are presented here so as to be useful in ink selection and tuning. Secondly, we also present a gray-box switched-system model for the trajectory of a jet during the printing process which accurately captures features observed through high-speed imaging. This model is simple and flexible enough to be useful for variety of applications. The contributions presented in this thesis are intended to advance E-jet technology for both academic and commercial use. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-07-14T16:02:10Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Mannen_Sarah.docx: 4312219 bytes, checksum: 124e1080f7d0f1e48ef048d11046c73d (MD5) Mannen_Sarah.pdf: 2031347 bytes, checksum: edbb3ddd272d12af9707539795c1000f (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-22T16:38:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Sarah_Mannen.pdf: 1996522 bytes, checksum: f149eaaa336f6879107293697666f5c0 (MD5) Mannen_Sarah.docx: 4312219 bytes, checksum: 124e1080f7d0f1e48ef048d11046c73d (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: 3ea3c469ef725b421c259eee8c6350bf (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/45375 en Copyright 2013 Sarah Mannen Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing Micromanufacturing Silver Printing Jet Cycle Modeling Improvements to the electrohydrodynamic jet printing process text Mechanical Sci & Engineering 1917 Mechanical Engineering 0133 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS:Mechanical Engineerng -UIUC 10KS0133MS