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Analysis of DoD inkjet printhead performance for printable electronics fabrication using dynamic lumped element modeling and swarm intelligence based optimal prediction

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The major challenge in printable electronics fabrication is to effectively and accurately control a drop-on-demand (DoD) inkjet printhead for high printing quality. In this work, an optimal prediction model, constructed with the lumped element modeling (LEM) and the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, was proposed to efficiently predict the combination of waveform parameters for obtaining the desired droplet properties. For acquiring higher simulation accuracy, a modified dynamic lumped element model (DLEM) was proposed with time-varying equivalent circuits, which can characterize the nonlinear behaviors of piezoelectric printhead. The proposed method was then applied to investigate the influences of various waveform parameters on droplet volume and velocity of nano-silver ink, and to predict the printing quality using nano-silver ink. Experimental results show that, compared with two-dimension manual search, the proposed optimal prediction model perform efficiently and accurately in searching the appropriate combination of waveform parameters for printable electronics fabrication.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Software, Tian** Polytechnic University, Tian**, 300387, China

    Mao-wei He  (何茂伟) & Han-ning Chen  (陈瀚宁)

  2. Department of Information Service & Intelligent Control, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Li-ling Sun  (孙丽玲), Kun-yuan Hu  (胡琨元) & Yun-long Zhu  (朱云龙)

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100040, China

    Li-ling Sun  (孙丽玲)

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Foundation item: Projects(2014AA052101-3, 2014AA052102) supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China; Projects(51205389, 61105067) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

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He, Mw., Sun, Ll., Hu, Ky. et al. Analysis of DoD inkjet printhead performance for printable electronics fabrication using dynamic lumped element modeling and swarm intelligence based optimal prediction. J. Cent. South Univ. 22, 3925–3934 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-015-2937-4

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