NDSU researchers develop special printer

It's like your ink jet printer at home, except this one prints electric circuits. Two NDSU researchers have developed a way to print electrical circuits on surfaces.

The printer uses a metallic ink, which allows an electrical current to pass through it. The print is also very small, about one twentieth the width of a human hair. Researchers say these circuits are perfectly suited for some common devices.

Justin Hoey – NDSU Researcher: “These printed electronic technologies are most applicable for flexible electronics, so that would maybe be a flexible display for flexible solar cells, transistors, RF ID tags.”

The printer itself costs around $10,000 to build.

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