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i just stumbled onto this site:
apparently they have developed a stretchable conductive ink for 3d printing of circuit elements. I immediately wondered if anyone has used any of these in the microwave region? If so, what frequency range are they good for? I bet, for now, there is an upper limit in frequency where the nanoparticles of conductor become electrically "large" and start doing funny non-conductive things...probably somewhere above 10 Ghz.
What inks have you seen being used?
They were developed for wearable electronics, but i am wondering about conformal antennas, circuits under high vibration, or RF circuits that bend repeatedly in use....
I keep coming back to the need for rapid prototyping in my lab, and this might be the sort of thing that gets me to invest in a 3D printer and some software to layout such circuits.
apparently they have developed a stretchable conductive ink for 3d printing of circuit elements. I immediately wondered if anyone has used any of these in the microwave region? If so, what frequency range are they good for? I bet, for now, there is an upper limit in frequency where the nanoparticles of conductor become electrically "large" and start doing funny non-conductive things...probably somewhere above 10 Ghz.
What inks have you seen being used?
They were developed for wearable electronics, but i am wondering about conformal antennas, circuits under high vibration, or RF circuits that bend repeatedly in use....
I keep coming back to the need for rapid prototyping in my lab, and this might be the sort of thing that gets me to invest in a 3D printer and some software to layout such circuits.