A drop emitting apparatus including a diaphragm layer disposed on a fluid channel
layer, a roughened bonding region formed on a surface of the diaphragm layer, a
thin film circuit having conformal raised contact regions disposed on the bonding
region, and a plurality of electromechanical transducers adhesively attached to
the raised contact regions and electrically connected to the conformal raised contact
regions by asperity contacts formed between the conformal raised contact regions
and the electromechanical transducers.