Chidanand Apté, Fred Damerau, et al.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
In resistive ribbon thermal transfer printing, a printhead consisting of an array of electrodes passes current into a thin ribbon to generate heat for transferring ink to paper. The ribbon is made of a polymeric material containing carbon black so as to be conducting, and has aluminum deposited on one side of the ribbon for a base contact. The electrical conduction processes within the ribbon are discussed. Current-voltage measurements have been made with electrodes of various types in order to separate effects due to contact resistance, aluminum/resistive ribbon interfacial resistance, and bulk conduction in the resistive ribbon. Measurements have been made over a range of frequency and temperature to determine the basic conduction mechanisms. A model of conduction is presented that is in qualitative agreement with the data.
Chidanand Apté, Fred Damerau, et al.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Yvonne Anne Pignolet, Stefan Schmid, et al.
Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar N. Sivarajan
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Sabine Deligne, Ellen Eide, et al.
INTERSPEECH - Eurospeech 2001