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• the present invention relates to the printing of films of electrically conductive organic polymers, particularly polyaniline, with additives to enhance the adhesion and resolution of the printed film while retaining adequate electrical conductivity.
• the conductive polymer films are useful in printing conductive electrical devices, particularly portions of thin film transistors known as sources and drains.
• TECHNICAL BACKGROUND Niu (US 6,205,016) describes composite electrodes including carbon nanofibers and an electrochemically active material for use in electrochemical capacitors.
• Kenny (US 5,932,643) describes coating formulations for printed images which contain conductive polymers.
• Baude et al (US 6,194,119 B1 ) describe selective thermal transfer of a first material proximate to a second material on a receptor from a first donor element.
• Wolk et al (US 6,291 ,1 16) disclose thermal transfer elements and processes for patterning solvent-coated layers and solvent-susceptible layers onto the same receptor substrate.
• Higashama JP 05198925 disclose integrated circuit manufacture by contacting a thermoplastic film with a circuit substrate and the selective thermal transfer of the material onto the substrate.
• Staral et al (US 6,284,425) disclose a thermal transfer donor element that includes a substrate, a transfer layer, a light-to-heat conversion layer and an underlayer.
• Wolk et al (US 6,270,944) disclose a thermal transfer element for forming a multilayer device.
• Wolk et al (US 6,291 ,126) disclose thermal transfer elements and processes for patterning organic materials for electronic devices onto patterned substrates.
• Wolk et al disclose a thermal transfer element for forming a multilayer device.
• the present invention describes a composition comprising: a) An organic conducting polymer selected from the group consisting of polyaniline, polythiophene, polypyrrole, and their derivatives, and poly(heteraromic vinylenes), doped with an organic protonic acid with 1 to 30 carbons, such that there are between 0.3 and 2.0 acid molecules for each nitrogen or sulfur in the polymer backbone, said polymer optionally doped with excess organic protonic acid with 1 to 30 carbons such that there are between 0.15 and 1 molecules of the excess organic protonic acid for each nitrogen or sulfur in the polymer; and b) plasticizer at a concentration of between 0.01 and 40% by weight.
• the plasticizer is at a concentration of between 5 and 20% by weight.
• the present invention also describes the above compositions further comprising 0.1 to 20% by weight, preferably 0.5 to 10% by weight, of highly acicular conductors.
• the highly acicular conductors are preferably carbon nanotubes, which may be single walled carbon nanotubes or multi-wall carbon nanotubes.
• the highly acicular conductors may be arc grown, laser grown or high pressure carbon-monoxide grown carbon nanotubes.
• compositions described above further comprise 0.001 to 1 % by weight of a surfactant.
• the compositions described above may further comprise 1 to 30 % by weight of a second macromolecule.
• compositions described may be used in an image transfer or printing process.
• the image transfer or printing process may be selected from the group consisting of laser transfer printing, ink jet printing, microcontact printing, offset printing and a gravure process.
• the present invention may be used in electronic devices comprising a patterned conductor comprised of the composition described above.
• the electronic device described may be selected from the group consisting of an interconnect, a via, a transistor, a source and drain electrode pair, a gate electrode, a backplate, an inductor, a capacitor, and a resistor.
• Figure 1 shows the conductivity (S/cm) as a function of laser power (Watts).
• Figure 2 shows conductivity (S/cm) as a function of laser power (Watts). Excess DBSA reduces the film conductivity.
• Figure 3 shows the conductivity of the transferred solid strips as a function of the laser power.
• Figure 4 shows conductivity (S/cm) versus laser power (watts) for
• Figure 5 shows the conductivity of transfer solid strips (S/cm) as a function of the laser power.
• Figure 6 shows the effect of the addition of PSMMA (Example 20) and PSMMA with 5% BP to L5000 on the conductivity of the untransferred material.
• Figure 7 shows the conductivity (S/cm) of solid transfer films as a function of laser power.
• Figure 8 shows conductivity (S/cm) versus laser power (watts) for Examples 24-27.
• Figure 9 shows that while excess acid improved adhesion of the transfer material to the receiver, the conductivity was frequently decreased.
• Figure 10 shows source and drain lines of conductor with a 5 micron channel.
• Figure 1 1 shows a 10 micron line serpentine pattern.
• Figure 12 shows an inverter device.
• Figure 13 shows the electrical characteristics of the inverter device.
• Figure 14 shows a backplane of an electrophoretic display. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
• This invention discloses additives to organic conducting polymers, preferably polyaniline (PAN I), for applications in which a resulting conducting layer must be thermally imaged with high resolution.
• the processability, adhesion, resolution and conductivity of the organic conducting polymer used in the examples is tuned with either a specific acid, such that the properties and imaging characteristic of the pattern generated via thermal imaging techniques, such as laser printing, is increased while the conductivity retained.
• the adhesion and image integrity can be tuned by introducing binders and plasticizers in such ratios that sufficient conductivity is retained.
• Improved conductivity is also achieved through the addition of conductive media such as carbon nanotubes with high aspect ratios and metal-like conductivity. Since the nanotube concentration is considerably lower than that required of fillers, the processability of the host polymer is maintained while the conductivity is increased without the need for incorporating a high boiling solvent.
• Organic conductors such as polyacetylene, which have a ⁇ -electron system in their backbone or like poly-(p-phenylene), and polypyrole consist of a sequence of aromatic rings and are excellent insulators in their native states and can be transformed into complexes with metallic conductivity upon oxidation or reduction.
• the electrical conductivity of polyacetylene (CH) X increases by a factor of 10 1 1 when the polymer is doped with donor or acceptor molecules.
• Tailoring electrical properties of polymers has been achieved utilizing three different strategies: 1 ) Modifying the intrinsic bulk properties by altering the chemical composition and structure of the starting material. 2) Altering the properties of the polymer at the molecular level by incorporating dopants, which may form charge transfer complexes with the host polymer. 3) Incorporating microscopic pieces such as carbon nanotubes, metal flakes, carbon-black particulate into the host polymer to form a conducting percolating conducting network in the host polymer.
• the second route clearly provides the most efficient pathways to polymeric synthetic metals, materials tend to exhibit lack of stability under ambient conditions.
• polyacetylene poly(1 ,6- heptadiyne) and polypropyne
• the un-doped polymers are unstable in oxygen.
• poly-p-phenylene, poly-p-phenylene oxide and poly-p- phenylene sulfide are stable in oxygen, they can only be doped with powerful acceptors such as AsF 5 and once doped they are susceptible to rapid hydrolysis under ambient conditions.
• polypyrole is stable under ambient conditions, it lacks some of the other desirable characteristics, most notably variable conductivity.
• conductivity values 0.001 S/cm
• conductors 0.001 S/cm
• Conductivities of 10 -10 to 10" 1 S/cm are readily achieved and can be tailored into the specifications.
• the electrical conductivity depends upon filler loading and there is a steep dependence upon filler load over a short range above a critical level (percolation threshold). Since high levels of filler loading, 10-40%, are employed to achieve high conductivities, polymer process ability is severely hindered.
• Typical fillers are PAN- derived C fibers, metallized glass fibers, Al flakes, and carbon black. Typical loading and resulting conductivities are shown in Table 1.
• typical synthetic metals such as polyacetylene, polyphenylene, and polyphenylene sulfide, can exhibit conductivities ranging from 10 2 -10 3 s/cm in the metallic regime.
• conductivities ranging from 10 2 -10 3 s/cm in the metallic regime.
• these values are obtained via strong oxidizing or reducing reaction materials, they tend to be not stable at ambient conditions limiting practical applications.
• polyaniline PAN I
• these materials have lower conductivity in the metallic state they appear to also have significant ⁇ de-localization in the polymer backbone but unlike other conducting polymers they are stable in air indefinitely.
• the emeraldine base form of polyaniline can be doped to the metallic conducting regime by dilute non-oxidizing aqueous acids such as HCI to yield an emeraldine salt that exhibits metallic conductivity but is air stable and inexpensive to produce in large quantities.
• HCI non-oxidizing aqueous acids
• the emeraldine form of polyaniline is believed to show high conductivity because of the extensive conjugation of the backbone.
• the conductivity of the material depends on two variables rather than one, namely the degree of oxidation of the PANI and the degree of protonation.
• most polyanilines have 10 2 -10 6 lower conductivity than polyacetylene.
• the highest conductivity PANI's are those cast from solutions of PANI camphosulfonate (PANI-CSA) in m-cresol. Conductivities of approximately 4 x 10 2 S/cm are observed. This is about two order of magnitude higher than PANI's protonated with mineral acids, which range from 10-1 to 10 1 S/cm.
• PANI-CSA has sufficiently high conductivity, the use of m-cresol with a boiling point of 203° severely limits its use in plastic electronics where substrates, such as Mylar®, are not stable at such elevated temperatures.
• TFT thin film field effect transistors
• organic materials have greater flexibility and easier tunability relative to the silicon based counterparts.
• Considerable activity has been focused on the development of semiconductor materials with high mobilities for applications in TFT's due to vast variety of organic materials available.
• Poly(alkylthiophenes), oligothiophenes, pentacene, phthalocyanines are just a few examples of such semiconductors.
• the conducting layer in such devices has typically utilized metals.
• PANI's in organic electronics requires the ability to pattern the material with high resolution. If the organic conductor is to be used as the source and drain in plastic transistors it requires imaging the source and drain conducting lines ranging from 1 to 1000, preferably 5 to 100 microns in width with a separation between source and drain lines of 0.5-100 microns, preferably 1-20 microns. Patterning of the conducting layer through a laser thermal transfer process will be described in detail for such applications. If imaging is performed via a transfer technique such as thermal imaging, the resolution of the image lines as well as device performance is controlled by the adhesion of the transfer film onto either a dielectric or a semiconducting layer. In addition, the conductivity of the organic conducting film must be preserved throughout the imaging process.
• This invention shows that the formulation of organic conductors suitable for high-resolution imaging can be achieved by tuning the adhesion of the transfer organic conducting layer on to the receiver layer.
• formulations must be tailored such that the heat absorbed during transfer does not decompose the conductor, degrading its conductivity. Maintaining the conductivity of a PANI layer upon thermal transfer is challenging since the heat induced by the laser partially deprotonates the backbone partially driving the polymer into the nonconducting emeraldine form.
• organic conductors can be imaged with high resolution using thermal transfer methods.
• specific acids and additives have been identified, which would lead to PANI's that can be imaged using thermal transferring techniques with high resolution and good adhesion to the underlying layer while either maintaining or increasing the conductivity of the transferred layer.
• the materials disclosed here are appropriate for applications as gates, sources, drains and interconnects in plastic TFT transistors in microelectronics. Conductor patterns including source and drain electrodes or gates and their associated interconnects are referred to as backplanes prior to deposition of semiconductor material.
• the present invention can be used to fabricate backplanes.
• the present invention can be used to make other circuit elements using conductors. These elements include interconnects, vias, inductors, capacitors, and resistors. For an inductor, a loop of conductor is deposited, followed by a layer of electrical insulation. A second loop is then deposited over the insulation. For a capacitor, a first layer (plate) of conductor is deposited. This is followed by deposition of a layer of dielectric. Finally, a second layer of conductor (plate) is deposited on the dielectric. A resistor is merely of strip of conductor of appropriate length and resistivity to produce a desired resistance.
• protonic acid an acid molecule containing a proton that dissociates from a counter ion in a solvent.
• Carbon nanotubes herein is meant carbon atoms bonded together in a hexagonal pattern to form long cylinders.
• Carbon nanotubes can be either single wall or multi-wall. Single wall carbon nanotubes are described in US Patent 5,424,054 to Bethune. Multi-wall carbon nanotubes are described in US Patent 5,747,161. Carbon nanotubes can be arc grown, laser grown or grown in high pressure carbon monoxide. The nanotubes used herein were obtained from Rice University, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
• organic conducting polymers polyaniline, polythiophene, polypyrrole, and their derivatives, and poly(heteraromic vinylenes).
• Polyaniline and polythiophene are preferred.
• Polyaniline is most preferred.
• Acid plasticizers are added to organic conducting polymers to increase the flexibility and adhesion of the deposited films.
• Plasticizers may be, but are not limited to, alkyl or aryl sulfonic acid, alkyl or aryl phosphoric acid and alkyl or aryl carboxylic acid. Esters of the acids are also used as plasticizers.
• Preferred plasticizers are alkyl or aryl sulfonic acids including, but not limited to, dinonylnaphthalene sulfonic acid, dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid, dibutylnaphthalene sulfonic acid, camphor sulfonic acid, toluene sulfonic acid, and methane sulfonic acid. Dinonylnaphthalene sulfonic acid is most preferred.
• Surfactants are added to organic conducting polymer/ carbon nanotube dispersions to aid in dispersion of the nanotubes.
• Surfactants may be, but are not limited to, ZONYL FSO, ZONYL FSN, ZONYL FS-300 and ZONYL FSA ( DuPont, Wilmington, DE) and TRITON-100, TRITON x-114, and IGEPAL CO-520 (Aldrich).
• Second macromolecules must be soluble in the same solvent used for dissolution of the organic conducting polymer and must be miscible with the doped organic conducting poymer.
• These include, but are not limited to, ELVALOY HP 771 , ELVALOY HP 441 , ELVALOY HP 662 and ELVALOY 4924 (DuPont, Wilmington, DE), CHLOROWAX 50 (Occidental Chemical Corporation, Dallas, TX), polysytrene, polyester, polystyrene- methyl methacrylate), and polyacrylate.
• Preferred solvents herein are selected from the group consisting of xylenes, toluene, cyclohexane, chloroform, or mixture thereof with polar solvent such as isopropanol, 2-butoxyethanol, where the content of the polar solvent is preferably less than 25% by weight.
• the imaged source and drains in the following examples were obtained using a CREO 3244 Trendsetter exposure unit (Creo Inc. Vancouver, Canada).
• the system comprises an 81.2-cm long drum of 91-cm perimeter.
• the 15 cm x 20 cm receiver was taped on to an Al offset plate (71.1 cm x 94.5 cm) at its lower right hand corner.
• the donor film tightly placed directly on top of the receiver with the emulsion towards the receiver.
• the offset plate was auto-loaded on to the trendsetter drum and magnetically clamped in position.
• the donor and the receiver were placed in the cassette and automatically loaded onto the drum.
• the donor film was written with an array of 240 5 x 2 micron spots resulting from the splitting of a 20 watt maximum average power infrared diode lasers beam emitting at 830 nm at 1 microseconds pulse width.
• the drum speed varied to achieve sensitivities of 200 to 550 mJ7cm2.
• the donor films used in the following examples comprised 3 layers: 1 ) a 4 mil Mylar substrate coated with 2) a thin metal layer heating layer which, in turn, is coated with 3) a solution of the conducting PANI and various additives on top.
• EXAMPLES 1-3 These examples illustrate the effect of added excess acid on the conductivity of a transfer polyaniline layer.
• the images were obtained using a CREO trendsetter with 5080 DPI (CREO-Scitex, Vancouver,
• a Spectrum Trendsetter Exposure Unit available from Creo Inc. (Vancouver, Canada) exposed the donor elements.
• the laser average power ranged from 4 to 12 Watts and the drum speed from 100 to 200 RPM.
• the 0.5 cm by 5 cm solid areas transferred at these laser powers were fabricated using a donor film comprising a 100 A layer of Ni coated via electron beam deposition by Flex, Inc (Santa Rosa, CA) directly on 400D Mylar to about 40% optical transmission.
• the layer to be transferred was a 1.3-micron film of L5000 (Ormecon Chemie GmbH and Co. KG, Ammersbek, Germany) PANI coated on to the Ni base.
• the L5000 solution contains 8.5% solids in equal part of isopropanol and toluene.
• the L5000 is doped to exhibit high electrical conductivity in the as purchased condition.
• the manufacture does not disclose the dopant used although it is believed to be p-toluene sulfonic acid.
• the solution was coated using Meyer rod #6 onto a 15 cm by 20 cm base.
• Example 1 used the L5000 solution without additives.
• the PANI layer contains 50% and 100% excess di nonyl naphthalene sulfonic acid, hereafter referred to as DNNSA.
• DNNSA is added to the L5000 solution prior to coating on the donor. An excess of 50% implies there are 0.25 moles of sulfur atoms from the excess acid dopant added for each mole of nitrogen in the polyaniline.
• the receiver comprised a 1 micron acrylic latex (55MMA 40BA/3MAA/2GMA where MMA is methyl methacrylate, BA is butyl acryl ate, MAA is methyl methacrylic acid and GMA is glycidyl methacrylate)) coated on to 400D Mylar using a CV® Coater from DuPont, Wilmington, DE, equipped with a #6 Meyer rod.
• the coating was dried for 3 minutes at a temperature of 50 °C.
• the 15 cm x 20 cm receiver layer was placed at the bottom right hand corner of a 74.5 cm x 91 .1 cm aluminum offset plate.
• the donor film, with the PANI surface facing the receiver coating, was stretched directly on top of the receiver.
• the Al offset plate was automatically loaded and positioned using magnetic clamps.
• the laser beam is focused on to the metal interface.
• the heat generated begins the decomposition of the organics in the adjacent interfaces, which leads to the transfer of the PANI onto the receiver at the different laser powers.
• the image on the receiver consists of nine 0.5 cm x 5 cm solid stripes transferred at laser powers ranging from 4 to 12 Watts.
• the conductivity of each of the transfer solid stripes was measured using 4-probe method. Thicknesses were determined by a Dektak profilometer. After the film thickness was measured, Ag contacts were sputtered to a thickness of 4000 A through an aluminum mask using a Denton vacuum unit (Denton Inc. Cherry Hill, NJ). The film resistivity was measured using the standard 4-probe measurement technique. The current was measured at the two outer contacts. These contacts were separated by 1 " and connected to a Hewlett Packard power supply in series with an electrometer (Keithley, 617). The voltage was measured at the two inner contacts, separated 0.25" using a Keithley multimeter. The resistivity (in ohm-square) as a function of laser power is shown in Figure 1 .
• the film conductivity, S, is 1/R.
• the conductivity of the L5000 without excess acid rapidly decreases with increasing laser power.
• the transferred films without excess acid show extremely low adhesion making it inappropriate for electronic applications. Adhesion was measured by inspection. Poorly adherent transferred layers may not remain on the receiver element after separation of the donor from the receiver after laser exposure. Alternatively, poorly adherent transferred layers may exhibit peeling around the edges. Poorly resolved transferred layers exhibit very irregular edges due to partial detachment. As excess acid is increased
• Example 2 the film becomes effectively more plasticized so that the adhesion of the transferred layer to the receiver layer is considerably improved.
• PANI with excess acid as an additive transferred in the 6-8 Watts range shows adequate conductivity as well as improved adhesion. Both set levels of excess acid are adequate for electronic applications.
• Examples 4 to 7 illustrate the use of excess dodecyl benzene sulfonic acid (DBSA) in L5000 Ormecon PANI to retain electronical conductivity while improving the adhesion of a thermally transferred layer on to a receiver.
• DBSA dodecyl benzene sulfonic acid
• the procedure for obtaining the donor layer is as previously described in Examples 1-3 with DBSA substituted for DNNSA.
• the receiver layer, mounting procedure, imaging procedure and conductivity measurements were also as previously described for Examples 1-3.
• EXAMPLES 8-11 These examples illustrate the effect of added plasticizer and low T g (glass transition temperature) organic material as second macromolecules on the adhesion and conductivity of a transferred polyaniline layer.
• Plasticizers are materials which when mixed with polyaniline interact with the polyaniline backbone to reduce the mechanical strength of the resulting material. The softer material with plasticizers exhibit enhanced adhesion upon thermal transfer.
• Appropriate plasticizers should be soluble in the organic solvent used to dissolve the polyaniline.
• Appropriate solvent include xylenes, toluene, cyclohexane, chloroform, isopropanol, and 2-butoxyethanol.
• Examples of appropriate plasticizers are alkyl or aryl esters, alkyl or aryl phosphates, and alkyl or aryl sulfonamides.
• Second macromolecules are waxes or polymers which raise the average decomposition temperature of their mixture with polyaniline.
• a transfer layer containing polyaniline is subject to heat during the thermal transfer process. Addition of a high decomposition temperature material to the polyaniline serves to absorb some of the heat generated during the transfer process, thus protecting the polyaniline from decomposition.
• Appropriate second macromolecules should be soluble in the organic solvent used to dissolve the polyaniline. Examples of appropriate second macromolecules are polyacrylate, polystyrene, ployester, polystyrene methyl methacrylate, co-polymers of ethylene/n-butyl acrylate/carbon monoxide such as Elvaloy HP441®, and chlorinated paraffin such as Chlorowax 50®.
• the low glass transition material is Chlorowax 50 hereafter referred to as CW50 (Occidental Chemical Corporation, Dallas, TX).
• the plasticizer is di-phenyl phthalate (dPP) (Aldrich, Milwaukee, Wl).
• CW50 or CW50 and dPP were added to the L5000 solution as described in Table 2.
• the receiver layer, mounting procedure, imaging procedure and conductivity measurements were also as previously described for Examples 1-3.
• Example 1 is a preferred embodiment of this invention
• EXAMPLES 12-17 These examples illustrate the effect of added plasticizers on the adhesion and conductivity of a transfer polyaniline layer.
• the procedure for obtaining the donor layer is as previously described in Examples 1-3 with excess DNNSA addition omitted. Instead dPP or di-butyl phthlate (dBP) was added to the L5000 solution as described in Table 3 prior to coating on the donor element.
• dPP di-butyl phthlate
• the receiver layer, mounting procedure, imaging procedure and conductivity measurements were also as previously described for Examples 1-3.
• Example 14 is a preferred embodiment of this invention.
• Figure 6 shows the effect of addition of PSMMA (Example 20) and PSMMA with 5%dBP (Example 21) to L5000 on the conductivity of the untransferred material.
• the films that were made were measured using a four point probe measurement.
• the conductivity changes very slightly with considerable amounts of PSMMA and PSMMA with 5% dBP.
• the conductivity of the same films measured after laser transfer decreases rapidly as a function of the laser power used in the transfer process. Despite the decrease, the conductivity is adequate for use in electronics.
• PANI polyaniline
• DNNSA Dinonylnaphthalene sulfonic acid
• the resulting material is hereafter referred to as PANI-DNNSA.
• the addition of DNNSA was controlled such that the moles of the sulfur atoms from the acid equals the moles of nitrogen atoms in the backbone of the PANI. This was confirmed by elemental analysis studies after washing, separating and drying of the resulting PANI-DNNSA.
• the dispersion of carbon nanotubes in PANI-DNNSA was performed with an acoustic Dukane sonicator with a horn probe using the following procedure.
• Example 22 59 mg Rice Laser carbon nanotubes and 19.03 g xylenes were mixed in a 2 oz. bottle. The mix was dispersed for 10 minutes with the horn probe submerged in the mix at a depth such that a stable mixing vortex was observed. 5.90 g of PANI- DNNSA in xylenes solution with a 32.9% solid content was added to the mixture. The resulting mixture was dispersed for additional 5 minutes during which time the bottle was shaken two times in order to rinse the carbon nanotubes off the walls of the bottle. The resulting slurry at 8% total solids was then coated as a 1 -micron film using a Meyer rod #10. The film contains 3% NT and 97% polyaniline after drying.
• Example 24 The resulting slurry at 8% solids was then coated as a 1 -micron film using a Meyer rod #10. The film after drying contains 3% NT and 97% polyaniline. There is a 15% excess of DNNSA.
• Example 24 the same procedure as Example 23 was used although with a 0.78 g addition of Nacure. This results in a 25% excess of DNNSA. Table 5 summarizes the composition of these examples.
• Figure 7 shows the conductivity of solid transfer films as a function of laser power.
• the imaging and conductivity measurements were performed as described Examples 1-3.
• the adhesion of the materials in Examples 23 and 24 is adequate.
• the conductivity of the transferred film is adequate for average laser power above about 5 watts.
• Example 24 is a preferred embodiment of this invention.
• Examples 25 to 27 demonstrate the effect of addition of carbon nanotubes on the conductivity of PANI-DNNSA without excess acid.
• Example 22 the same procedure was followed as outlined for Example 22. This resulted in films with 1 , 2, and 3% by weight carbon nanotubes, respectively. Table 6 summarizes the compositions of these examples.
• Example 27 is a preferred embodiment of this invention.
• the transfer of the conducting transfer layer by thermal imaging allows for very accurate control of line widths and channel widths.
• Figure 9 shows the conductivity of 100 microns wide lines, 1250 microns in length.
• the sets of 15 lines were measured using a 4-probe technique as well.
• the contacts as well as the lines were imaged directly into a pattern suitable for a 4-probe measurement.
• the voltage and current to the contact lines were applied under the microscope using mini-manipulators with needle tungsten probes that could be exactly positioned on the line at the end.
• the patterns were transferred at specific laser powers and their conductivity measured.
• the materials in Examples 28, 29 and 30 correspond to the materials used to Examples 25, 26, and 27.
• Examples 31 , 32 and 33 were dispersed using the same procedure as Example 24.
• Examples 31 , 32 and 33 all have 25% excess acid, but the carbon nanotube concentrations are 1 , 2, and 3% by weight, respectively.
• Table 7 summarizes the composition of the materials.
• Figure 9 shows that while excess acid improved the adhesion of the transfer material to the receiver, the conductivity was frequently decreased.
• the conductivity generally increases with increasing carbon nanotube concentration.
• the addition of the carbon nanotubes tends to decrease the adhesion of the film, counteracting to some degree the addition of the acid.
• the ratio of acid and carbon nanotubes must be balanced.
• Example 33 with 3% nanotubes and 25% excess DNNSA is best mode of this invention, representing the desired balance.
• EXAMPLE 34 This example shows the effect of a dispersion of Hipco carbon nanotubes on laser transferred films of PANI with DNNSA.
• the Hipco NT is from Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
• the Hipco carbon nanotubes have similar properties to other, previously-described Rice University nanotubes although it is believed that Hipco nanotubes have a concentration of single wall nanotubes of approximately 50%.
• the PANI used was prepared in the same way as in Example 22 with
• PANI-DNNSA Dinonylnaphthalene sulfonic acid used as a doping acid. This is referred to as PANI-DNNSA.
• the dispersion of Hipco carbon nanotubes in PANI-DNNSA was performed with a Branson bath sonicator followed by an acoustic Dukane sonicator with a horn probe using the following procedure.
• Example 34 45 mg Rice Hipco carbon nanotubes, 20.10 g xylenes and 4.86 g PANI-DNNSA (29.95% solids) in xylenes were mixed in a 2 oz. bottle. The mix was then placed in the Branson bath sonicator for 60 minutes, during which time the bottle was shaken for 1 minute in every 15 minute interval. The resulting mix was then dispersed for an additional 3 minutes with the horn sonicator during which time the bottle was shaken for 30 seconds in every 1 minute interval in order to rinse the carbon nanotubes off the walls of the bottle. 2.5 ⁇ L Zonyl FSO surfactant was then added to the resulting slurry which contained 6% total solids.
• the Hipco carbon nanotube-PANI-DNNSA was then coated onto a previously- described nickel substrate using a #10 Meyer rod and imaged using the CREO following the procedure described in Example 1.
• the film contains 3% NT and 97% polyaniline after drying.
• Table 8 summarizes the composition of the dispersion in this example.
• source and drain lines with a 5 micron (1 pixel) channel (shown in Figure 10) and a 10 micron line serpentine pattern (shown in Figure 11 ) were printed.
• the material's use in functioning electronic circuits was also illustrated by printing sources and drains and gate layers of an inverter circuit via thermal imaging.
• the images were obtained using a CREO trendsetter with 5080 DPI (CREO- Scitex, Vancouver, Canada).
• the laser power for the exposure of the 5 micron channel ( Figure 10), the serpentine pattern ( Figure 11 ) and gate and source/drain layer ( Figure 12) was 3.45 Watts.
• the printer drum speed was 100 RPM.
• the receiver comprised a 5 micron Elvax extruded onto 400D Mylar
• the conductivity of the 10 microns lines shown in Figure 11 is 800 ohms-square and the film thickness was about 1 micron.
• the Inverter in Figure 12 is formed in the following fashion. First, the gate layer is printed with a donor as described above. After the printing of this layer is completed, the receiver is removed from the equipment and a strip of dielectric is laminated across the gate without covering the gate electrodes at the contact locations. After lamination, the receiver is re-position for printing of the source and drain. The receiver is then removed and Pentacene is evaporated onto the inverter transistors. As shown in Figure 12, the transfer of the conducting lines using the PANI/Hipco composition exhibits very high resolution with very accurate control of line widths and channel widths. The channel lengths for the five transistors on the left and single transistor on the right are 30 micron.
• Example 34 is a preferred embodiment of this invention.
• Figure 14 shows a backplane of an electophoretic display of the imaged conductor of Example 34.

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