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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2001.17.1.art00103_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20010101)2001:2L.890;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">nip_v2001n2/splitsection103.xml</article-id>
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        <subj-group>
          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Designing and Optimizing New Microchannel Architectures to Approach High Frequency Inkjet</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Liu</surname>
            <given-names>Chien-Hung</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Hu</surname>
            <given-names>Je-Ping</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Cheng</surname>
            <given-names>Shu-Chuan</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Chen</surname>
            <given-names>Chun-Jung</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2001</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2001</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>890</fpage>
      <lpage>894</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2001</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>This work develops several new designs of micro-channel architectures (<italic>arches</italic>) and promotes successfully the jetting frequency from commercial 6 kHz to 12 kHz in a large drop weight of 70 ng. These printheads with different arches of ink micro-channel were fabricated to be investigated
 by the tests and analyses including dot size, circularity, drop appearance, and frequency response of mass-jetted. These arches mainly comprise two stages of channels and provide with various specific features. The results show most of these designs are able to successfully jet weighty drops
 of 65&#x223C;75 ng and keep low change of drop weight while frequency increases over 10 kHz. The characteristics of different features are also evaluated for jetting performance. These new micro-channel designs indicate a new way to approach much higher speed for inkjet printing.</p>
      </abstract>
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