National Research Council of Canada

Christophe Py

Ye Tao

Mario Leclerc

Zhiyi Zhang

Boris Lamontagne

Jan J Dubowski

Peter D Grant

Farid Bensebaa

Ta-Ya Chu

Jean-Francois Morin

Afshin Dadvand

Karim Faid

Isabelle Levesque

Marie D'Iorio

Disclosed is a method of printing ultranarrow-gap lines of a functional material, such as an electrically conductive silver ink. The method entails providing a substrate having an interlayer coated on the substrate and printing the ultranarrow-gap lines by depositing ink on the interlayer of the substrate, the ink comprising the functional material and a solvent that swells the interlayer to cause the interlayer to bulge at edges of the ink to thereby define embankments that confine the ink.

Method of printing ultranarrow-gap lines

A microblind system has an array of overhanging stressed microblinds, each having an anchor portion attached a substrate and a mobile portion. The microblinds are responsive to electrostatic forces to mutate between a deployed configuration wherein the mobile portion obscure the substrate and a curled configuration wherein the mobile portion exposes the substrate. A transparent conductive layer permits the application of an electric field to the microblinds.

Microblinds and a method of fabrication thereof

A novel method of molecular imprinting is described. Using a modified soft lithography technique, a molecularly-imprinted chemical detection device comprising at least one molecularly-imprinted polymer capable of detecting at least one chemical target is produced. The device can be used in the field for in situ detection and quantification of chemical targets using standard surface analytical techniques.

Molecularly-imprinted chemical detection device and method

Many integrated circuits require a multilayer structure which contains layer of an organic or polymeric material with a patterned metallic layer on it. Laser patterning has many favorable characteristics but it also damages the organic or polymeric material. A novel method is disclosed that makes possible laser patterning of conductive metal electrode deposited on top of an organic and/or polymeric material without significant ablation of the organic and/or polymeric material. The method can achieve higher patterning resolution, resulting in higher quality integrated circuits. The method is based on the application of a thin coating of an inexpensive anti-reflector deposited on top of the desired metal electrode which in turn lies on the organic and/or polymeric material. The thin anti-reflecting coating allows the use of a lower fluence laser for ablation of metal layer without damaging the underlying organic and/or polymeric material.

Multilayer microstructures and laser based method for precision and reduced damage patterning of such structures

Conjugated polycarbazole derivatives in Organic Light Emitting Diodes

A field-emission display (FED) device has a cathodoluminiescent screen and an emitting assembly for selectively energizing pixels on the screen to form an image. The emitting assembly includes an array of emitters arranged in addressable rows, and controllable focusing/deflection arrangement associated with the respective emitters to permit emissions from the emitters in a group of addressed rows to be simultaneously directed onto a common energized pixel on the screen.

Field emission displays with focusing/deflection gates

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