Design and fabrication of multilayer inkjet-printed passive components for printed electronics circuit development

Printing electronic passive components suffer from the lack of a wide variety of appropriate materials for developing components with specific characteristics, for specific dimensions. This paper introduces a multilayer approach for the inkjet printing of resistors, inductors and capacitors, showing that it is possible to manufacture tailored passive circuit elements and therefore their implementation into functional printed electronics. The materials and process steps for the manufacturing, the individual component characteristics and the equivalent circuit is provided for all passive devices.This work was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the framework of the Strategic Funding UID/FIS/04650/2013 and projects PTDC/EEI SII/5582/2014 and PTDC/CTM-ENE/5387/2014. VC thank the FCT for the SFRH/BPD/97739/2013 grant. KYM and ES acknowledge the support of the FP7-ICT project TDK4PE (grant agreement number 287682). Financial support from the Basque Government Industry Department under the ELKARTEK Program is also acknowledged.