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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.2169-4451.2007.23.1.art00081_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20070101)2007:2L.843;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">nip_v2007n2/splitsection81.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/nipdf/2007/00002007/00000002/art00081</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group>
          <subject>Articles</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Digital Fabrication Using Electrophotography for Conductive Patterning</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Minegihsi</surname>
            <given-names>Daiki</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Yamanaka</surname>
            <given-names>Yasuo</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Terashi</surname>
            <given-names>Taro</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2007</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2007</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>843</fpage>
      <lpage>845</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2007</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>We modified an electrophotography method used in digital fabrication so that it can eventually be used in a mass production process. Our modification involved partly covering a charge roller with an insulating medium to prevent it from charging at certain points. Therefore, this charge
 roller can form the same latent image each time directly on a dielectric substrate without a photoreceptor or an optical unit.We demonstrated that our modification worked using a conventional charge roller that was partially wrapped with polyimide film that contained a 20-&#x3BC;m-width penetrating
 slit. The modified roller was used to charge a dielectric film. The formed latent image was developed with liquid developer of conductive toners. The obtained pattern width of the conductive toner was 20 &#x3BC;m, which is the same as the slit width in the polyimide film.To form an insulating
 medium in an arbitrary pattern on the surface of a charge roller, we choose a chemical amplification photoresist as the insulating medium. The charge roller material and the photoresist were deposited onto a flat substrate and patterned using conventional photolithography. The results showed
 the possibility that the photoresist is capable of forming arbitrary patterns on the charge roller material.</p>
      </abstract>
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