摘要:
A self-aligned interconnect significantly reduces manufacturing costs and provides important advantages in a number of specific applications begins with a single crystal substrate. The substrate is machined to accept microelectronic chips at various locations (openings) along the substrate. Corresponding chips are constructed to precisely fit the openings in the crystal substrate. To ensure precision fit, both the substrate and the chip are etched along the same crystal plane. As a result, the chips can be placed in the openings in the substrate with perfect or nearly perfect alignment in the x and y directions without expensive alignment tools. In effect, the chips and the substrate are self aligned.
摘要:
A fluid ejection device includes a thin film heater resistor portion having a heater resistor, and a two-layer structure disposed over the heater resistor. The two-layer structure includes a top layer and a bottom layer, with the top layer having a hardness that is at least 1.5 times greater than the hardness of the bottom layer.
摘要:
An inkjet printhead (100) and a method (200) of supplying viscous ink employ a central ink feed channel (130). The inkjet printhead (100) includes a bridge beam (110) that supports an ejector element (106), a pair of lateral ink feed channels (120) adjacent to the bridge beam (110), and a central ink feed channel (130) through the ejector element (106) and bridge beam (110). The pair of lateral ink feed channels (120) and the central ink feed channel (130) connect between an ink reservoir (140) below the bridge beam (110) and the bubble expansion chamber (104). The method (200) includes providing (210) a central ink feed channel in a bridge beam of a printhead and flowing (220) viscous ink from an ink reservoir through a combination of the provided central ink feed channel and a pair of lateral ink feed channels.
摘要:
A printable composition for use in forming a printed element by printing and curing is described. The printable composition comprises a plurality of nanostructures of a first type that, upon printing and curing, form an arrangement defining intermediate volumes thereamong. The printable composition further comprises a plurality of nanostructures of a second type that, upon printing and curing, at least partially fill the intermediate volumes to promote smooth surface topography and reduced porosity in the printed element.
摘要:
Image development methods, hard imaging devices, and image members are described. According to one embodiment, an image development method includes providing an image member comprising a surface having different portions of different electrical conductivities, wherein one of the portions defines an imaging pattern of an image, providing a development agent comprising a plurality of electrically charged image particles and a plurality of electrically charged charge directors over the image member, providing an electrical field proximate the image member having the development agent over the image member, and using the electrically charged charge directors and the electric field, directing the electrically charged image particles to the one of the portions of the surface of the image member to develop the image.
摘要:
A common carrier for forming multiple printheads thereon and method of forming thereof is described. The common carrier includes a carrier substrate for adhering a plurality of unprocessed, integrateable semiconductor chips. Once adhered, the carrier substrate is lithographically processed to form a plurality of integrated circuit (IC) printhead chips such that alignment of the IC chips on the carrier substrate has the precision of lithographic alignment tolerances which is well within printhead alignment requirements.
摘要:
A carrier includes a substrate formed to accept microelectronic chips at various pockets in the substrate. The microelectronic chips are hermetically sealed within the substrate by a deposition process using localized energy supplied at gaps between the chips and the pockets. During the heating process, seal material is deposited in the gaps to form the hermetic seals.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for assembling an inkjet printhead is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more microheater resistors and a material, which can be reflowed by use of the heat generated by the microheater, disposed proximate to the heater resistor. The microheater resistor comprises a heater resistor with an input port and an output port. A first electrical conductor, coupled to the input port of the heater resistor, receives a first voltage and a second electrical conductor, coupled to the output port of the heater resistor, receives a second voltage. A curing effect in the adhesive is produced by heat generated in the heater resistor when electrical current flows through the resistor in response to an application of a first voltage to the first electrical conductor and a second voltage to the second electrical conductor.
摘要:
Precision alignment of one or more parts on a common carrier is described. A self-aligned common carrier includes a carrier substrate having one or more pockets formed in the substrate. Each pocket includes a side profile formed in the pocket. A chip having an identical side profile that complements the side profile in the pocket is mounted to the carrier substrate by inserting the chip into the pocket. The complementary side profiles result in near perfect self-alignment between the chip and at least two orthogonal planes of the carrier substrate. The chip and the carrier substrate can be made from a single crystal semiconductor material and the side profiles can be formed by anisotropic etch process that selectively etches the chip and the substrate along a predetermined crystalline plane. The chip and the carrier substrate can be single crystal silicon having a (100) crystalline orientation and the side profiles can be formed by selectively etching the silicon along a (111) crystalline plane. The matching coefficients of thermal expansion between the chip and the carrier substrate substantially reduces thermal stress related interconnect failures and misalignment between the chip and the carrier substrate. The carrier substrate and the chip can be anodically bonded to each other by oxidizing either one of the carrier substrate and the chip and etching the side profiles so that they are atomically flat.
摘要:
A substrate for the print head of an ink jet printer includes a plastic base, a metallization layer overlying the plastic base, and a dielectric structure overlying the metallization layer. A thin film resistor is deposited over the substrate, as required. Preferred materials include polyimide plastic for the base, chromium for the metallization layer, and a bilayer construction of silicon dioxide overlying titanium for the dielectric structure.