Ultrathin Ceramic Piezoelectric Films via Room-Temperature Electrospray Deposition of ZnO Nanoparticles for Printed GHz Devices

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Brenda García-Farrera, Luis F Velásquez-García

Abstract

High-frequency devices are key enablers of state-of-the-art electronics used in a wide and diverse range of exciting applications such as inertial navigation, communications, power conversion, medicine, and parallel computing. However, high-frequency additively manufactured piezoelectric devices are yet to be demonstrated due to shortcomings in the properties of the printed transducing material and the attainable film thickness. In this study, we report the first room-temperature-printed, piezoelectric, ultrathin (<100 nm) ceramic films compatible with high-frequency (>1 GHz) operation. The films are made of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles via near-field electrohydrodynamic jetting, achieving film piezoelectricity, without high-temperature processing, through a novel mechanism that is controlled during the deposition. Optimization of the printing process and feedstock formulation results in homogeneous traces as narrow as 213 μm and as thin as 53 nm as well as uniform field films as thin as 91 nm; the printing technique can be used with flexible and rigid, conductive and insulating substrates. The crystallographic orientation of the imprints toward the (100) plane increases if the rastering speed during printing is augmented, re...Continue Reading

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