Fabrication Approaches for Conducting Polymer Devices

This chapter describes the approaches for conducting polymer device fabrication, with a particular emphasis on high-throughput, cost-effective, and simple fabrication techniques, applicable to polymers. It focuses on polymer-friendly photolithography and a printing patterning technique. The chapter further focuses on specific characteristics of printing technologies. Printing techniques have emerged over the past decades as attractive alternatives to photolithography for the manufacturing of electronic devices. These techniques are compatible with roll-to-roll processes and can operate at high speed. Photolithography is the most popular technique of patterning in the integrated circuits industry. It offers a reliable and reproducible way of building electronic devices with great accuracy and high resolution. It is an appealing organic material patterning technique as it promises to use the knowhow and the added knowledge of the already well-established and mature semiconductor industry.