Printing gold nanoparticles with an electrohydrodynamic direct-write device

Abstract

A dispersion containing 15nm gold particles in ethanol was subjected to electrohydrodynamic atomization, producing droplets with an average size of ∼26μm as measured by laser diffraction. An electrohydrodynamic direct-write device was used to deposit the dispersion onto silicon wafers with the intention of printing gold tracks. Immediately after deposition ethanol evaporated, leaving the gold particles organised in a ∼75μm wide central region surrounded by two regions, each ∼50μm wide, at the edge of which two further gold tracks, each ∼7μm existed.