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Structure and properties of electrospray printed polymeric films

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Electrospray printing is a low-cost additive manufacturing technique that uses a high-electric potential to generate a spray of charged, solvent encapsulated solute particles. The solvent rapidly evaporates in-flight, depositing the dry solute material onto a target surface. Over time, the material aggregates to create thin, continuous films. Here, we report on the printing of polymeric (polyimide) films onto two target substrates: flat silicon wafers and industry-standard bond wires and pads. Unlike other spray-coating processes, electrospray is driven by the electric field, and the emitted droplets/particles are guided to the target surface by electric field lines. This enables the coating to wrap around complex geometries to deliver material to non-line-of-sight surfaces. The films showed high conformality around the complex geometries of the bond packages. The printed coatings also exhibited good dielectric strength (up to 142 V/µm), increased hydrophobicity (112° ± 9°), and corrosion resistance improvement up to four times.

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Acknowledgments

Financial support for this research was provided by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). Our thanks to our industry mentors Yasmine Yan (TI), Sean Chang (TI), and Varughese Mathew (NXP) for their outstanding support and guidance. Our thanks to the Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratory at SUNY Binghamton. PRC acknowledges the financial support of the National Science Foundation (Award #1554038).

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Pawliczak, E.E., Kingsley, B.J. & Chiarot, P.R. Structure and properties of electrospray printed polymeric films. MRS Advances 7, 635–640 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-022-00340-0

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