Influence of Dry Cleaning on the Electrical Resistance of Screen Printed Conductors on Textiles
Source abstract
Abstract
Abstract Electrically conducting inks were screen printed on various textile substrates. The samples were dry cleaned with the usual chemicals in order to investigate the influence of the mechanical treatment on the electrical conductivity. It was found that dry cleaning has a tremendous influence on this electrical conductivity. For several samples, it is observed that the electrical resistance increases with the square of the number of dry cleaning cycles. In order to explain this observation a theoretical model and a numerical simulation have been carried out, by assuming that dry cleaning cycles introduce a crack in the conducting layer. The theoretical analysis and the numerical analysis both confirmed the experimental observations.
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Research context
OpenAlex topics: Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials · Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies · Textile materials and evaluations
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Affiliations
Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Sint Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Department of Textiles Ghent University, Technologiepark 907, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Department of Textile and Fashion, Square ‘Mother Teresa’, No.4, Tirana, Albania
Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science, Technical University of Lodz, 221/223 Wolczanska St., Lodz, Poland
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