The topic of the plenary lecture at the Transparent Conductive Materials (TCM) 2012 meeting was the use of ink-jet printing for patterning the structures of functional materials, which is currently a field of extensive research. The design of the structure is made directly in the computer, it needs low amounts of materials, it reduces wastes and costs, and the scalability to large area manufacturing is possible. Therefore the ink-jet printing technology found its use in a lot of different applications, like thin film transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, and so on. In the printing ink, the functional material is either suspended or dissolved in a carrier liquid. The fluid properties of the ink which influence the drop formation include viscosity and surface tension.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 26234919After the organisation of the symposium within the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2011 Fall Meeting, entitled Solution-Derived Electronic-Oxide Films, Nanostructures and Patterning, from Materials to Devices, (Warsaw, Poland, 19.-23. 9. 2011), B. Malič was also the editor of the conference proceedings in 2012 together with the co-chairs of the symposium Viorica Musat, Marlies Van Bael and Theodor Schneller.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 2161147The contribution at the Transparent Conductive Materials (TCM) 2012 obtained the best poster award. The study of electrical properties of Ta2O5 and Ta2O5 – Al2O3 – SiO2 (Ta:Al:Si = 8:1:1 atomic ratio),prepred by Chemical Solution Deposition and heated at 250°C, 300°C, 350°C and 400°C revealed that the mixed-oxide based thin films exhibited lower leakage currents than the pure Ta2O5 films.
E.02 International awards
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