Printing-based selective metal thin-film deposition enables facile/ fast fabrication of high-performance soft electronic devices

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-09-metal-deposition-technique-enables-fabrication.html

"polymer patterns block metal vapor condensation allowing vapor deposition/ patterning at same time without need for separate shadow/ photo masks, enabling patterns with line widths ranging from μm to mm on large scale... polymer pattern's stretchability/ mechanical durability enables deposition on multi-curvature/ elastic substrates... wireless power transmission, curvilinear OLEDs, stretchable LED arrays... future: porous transparent structures in OLEDs' electrodes, camera/ face recognition sensors"