High precision electrohydrodynamic printing of polymer onto microcantilever sensors

James H. Pikul; Phil Graf; Sandipan Mishra; Kira Barton; Yong Kwan Kim; John A. Rogers; Andrew Alleyne; Placid M. Ferreira; William P. King

doi:10.1109/JSEN.2011.2127472

High precision electrohydrodynamic printing of polymer onto microcantilever sensors

James H. Pikul^*, Phil Graf, Sandipan Mishra, Kira Barton, Yong Kwan Kim, John A. Rogers, Andrew Alleyne, Placid M. Ferreira, William P. King

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Abstract

We report electrohydrodynamic jet printing to deposit 2-27 μm diameter polymer droplets onto microcantilever sensors. The polymer droplets were deposited as single droplets or organized patterns, with sub-μm control over droplet diameter and position. The droplet size could be controlled through a pulse-modulated source voltage, while droplet position was controlled using a positioning stage. Gravimetry analyzed the polymer droplets by examining the shift in microcantilever resonance frequency resulting from droplet deposition. The resonance shift of 50-4130 Hz corresponded to a polymer mass of 4.5-135 pg. The electrohydrodynamic method is a precise way to deposit multiple materials onto micromechanical sensors with greater resolution and repeatability than current methods.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5729782
Pages (from-to)	2246-2253
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Sensors Journal
Volume	11
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2011.2127472
State	Published - 2011

Keywords

Electrohydrodynamics
mass sensing
microcantilever
microelectromechanical systems
polymer deposition
polymer printing
sensor

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Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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