Laser Printing of Functional Materials

Chapter 5Advances in Blister-Actuated Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (BA-LIFT)

Emre Turkoz, Romain Fardel and Craig B. Arnold

Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials, D410 Engineering Quadrangle/Bowen Hall Rm 320, Princeton, NJ, 80544, USA

Blister-actuated laser-induced forward transfer (BA-LIFT) is a laser printing technique that enables the deposition of liquid droplets with lateral resolution down to a few micrometers. BA-LIFT was developed to overcome some of the limitations of classical LIFT by enabling the transfer of sensitive materials, such as functional polymers and molecules, biomolecules, and living organisms, while retaining their functionality ...