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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2017
Government of the United States, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Christopher E. Tabor, Kettering, OH (US);
Michael F. Durstock, West Chester, OH (US);
James R. Deneault, Kettering, OH (US);
United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Abstract
A method for forming a conductive trace on a substrate. A metallic liquid is mixed with a solvent to produce a metallic liquid mixture. The metallic liquid mixture is stimulated to produce a colloidal suspension of discrete metallic liquid particles surrounded by the solvent. The colloidal suspension is aerosolized with a carrier gas, and passed through a nozzle to deposit the discrete metallic liquid particles onto the substrate. The deposited discrete metallic liquid particles are annealed, thereby producing the conductive trace. The conductive trace has a substantially contiguous core of the metallic liquid within a substantially non-electrically conductive solid skin that substantially bounds the liquid core.