By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Nanotechnology Weekly -- A new study on Microelectromechanical Systems is now available. According to news originating from Corvallis, Oregon, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, “Due to the lack of grain boundaries, an amorphous metal thin film (AMTF) provides advantageous mechanical properties and enhanced chemical stability, which may enable its use as a thinner cavitation plate for thermal inkjet (TIJ) printing. A thinner cavitation plate leads to improved thermal performance.”
Financial supporters for this research include National Science Foundation through the Major Research Instrumentation Program, Murdock Charitable Trust and the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, Spectroscopy Society of the Pittsburgh Starter Grant.
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Oregon State University, “However, if an AMTF is to be used as a cavitation plate, it must remain amorphous during TIJ operation. In this paper, we fabricate TIJ resistors using a thermally stable (crystallization temperature >1000 degrees C) Ta30W30Si40 AMTF and stress the material in an open-pool test bed. This tests the stability of the thin film properties after being exposed to a TIJ-like environment. We find that the Ta30W30Si40 AMTF retains its amorphous structure after testing to > 10(7) pulses in the simulated TIJ environment.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This suggests that Ta30W30Si40 AMTF is a promising candidate material for TIJ cavitation plate applications.”
For more information on this research see: Amorphous Metal Thin Films for Thermal Inkjet Printing. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems , 2018;27(2):289-295. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems can be contacted at: Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-4141, USA.
The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from J.M. McGlone, Oregon State University, Sch Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States. Additional authors for this research include J.K. Pommerenck, M.W. Graham and J.F. Wager.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2018.2794539. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-04-30), New Microelectromechanical Systems Findings from Oregon State University Discussed (Amorphous Metal Thin Films for Thermal Inkjet Printing), Nanotechnology Weekly, 844, ISSN: 1944-2491, BUTTER® ID: 015593337
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