Laser Printing of Functional Materials

Chapter 9Laser-Induced Forward Transfer of Soft Materials

Zhengyi Zhang^1,2, Ruitong Xiong² and Yong Huang²

¹Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China

²University of Florida, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 571 Gale Lemerand Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

9.1 Introduction

Laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT), a versatile direct-write technique to deposit materials, has emerged as a promising orifice-free direct-write technique with a great variety of applications, such as microelectronics [1] and tissue engineering [2–9], to name a few. In particular, it has found increasing interest in printing two-dimensional (2D) ...