• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.21-24
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• 2005

Ink-jetting characteristics of pulse width and pulse amplitude for a piezoelectric ink jet printer driver have been mapped with various polymer EL ink. In this study, the jetting characteristics have been classified into 4 regime; no Jetting, unstable jetting, stable jetting, and spraying, and the importance of fluid viscosity on the scope of the stable jetting regime has been emphasized. The relation between jetting speed and the width and amplitude of driving signal has also been investigated and the effect of the speed on the jetting characteristics has been discussed.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.143-147
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• 2009

Inkjet printing makes use of ink droplets to form required patterns on a substrate. In order for the inkjet technology to produce reliable patterning tools, the jetting performance needs be controlled precisely. For controlling ink jetting performance, input waveform should be properly designed. In the past, the research was focused on designing dwell time of the input waveform for controlling jetting speed. However, the jetting performance is also closely related to rising and falling time. In this study, the effect of the rising and falling time on droplet speed will be investigated by measuring the droplet speed. In this study, the power OP amp (PA98A) was used in order to drive piezo inkjet head by amplifying the waveform generated from arbitrary function generator. The experimental results show that change of rising and falling time in the waveform not only affect the droplet speed but also optimal dwell time.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.562-565
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• 2008

Measuring system for piezo inkjet droplet and ink jetting status was developed. In order to measure the jetting performance, two different approaches have been used. One is to use the self-sensing capability of the piezo actuator in the printhead. The other is to use the droplet image from a CCD camera. The software as well as hardware using two approaches was developed. The self-sensing signal as well as meniscus motion was shown to be useful in monitoring jetting conditions. Furthermore, ink properties such as viscosity and speed of sound, which is related to jetting performance, can be understood.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.449-454
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• 2012

The method for spraying of liquid through an electrical filed has become a printing method since it can make very small droplet. To increase the reliability using the electro-hydrodynamic (EHD) jet printing, the jetting status needs to be monitored. Vision measurement techniques using high speed camera has been used to visualize the jet images. However, it requires image processing of a lot of images after image acquisitions. So, it is difficult to understand jet behavior such as jetting frequency, jet repeatability etc. In this work, a low cost electrical current measurement method was developed to measure electrical current from EHD jet printing. To verify the jetting monitoring capability of developed circuit, images from high speed camera were processed for comparison purpose.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.892-898
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• 2008

3차원 쾌속 조형법은 컴퓨터에 저장되어있는 객체 데이터를 이용하여 시제품을 제작하는 기술로써, 기존의 나무나 클레이, 혹은 주조 제작방식과는 달리 원하는 위치에 요구되는 재료를 직접 적층함으로써 원형제품을 제작함을 특징으로 한다. 스테레오리쏘그래피, 용융 점착법, 선택적 레이저 소결법, 판상 제작법 등의 다양한 3차원 쾌속 조형법이 개발되었으나, 그 중에서 잉크젯을 통한 3차원 쾌속 조형법은 잉크화된 조형재료를 통해 구조적으로 기능이 가능한 원형제품의 제작이 가능하다는 특징이 있다. 그러나, 기능성 원형제품의 제작을 위해서는 잉크의 고농도화가 요구되며, 이로 인해 잉크 점도가 상승되어 젯팅 신뢰성이 저하되는 문제점이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 3차원 쾌속 조형법을 위한 최적 젯팅조건을 도출하기 위해 슬러리 타입 세라믹 상변화 잉크의 음파 전달속도 측정과 음파 전달속도가 젯팅에 미치는 영향을 고찰하도록 한다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.141-145
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• 2009

Recently, inkjet technology has emerged as one of the most powerful tools for patterning electronics devices, such as large area display applications, RFID, PCB patterning, etc. By using the Inkjet technology, the droplet speed as well as the size can be controlled precisely. In this paper, the relationship between waveform and droplet size will be investigated by means of experiment. Also the relationship between inkjet speed and droplet size will be discussed. It was shown from experimental results that ink droplet size from the nozzle diameter of $50{\mu}m$ can be varied from 37 to $58{\mu}m$ by modifying the inkjet waveform when the speed of the droplet is 1m/sec. Finally, experimental results indicate that small drops are more difficult to generate than large drops since the jetting conditions for making small drops are sensitively affected by the dwell time variation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2014

EHD (electro-hydro-dynamics) patterning was performed under atmospheric pressure at room temperature in a single step. The drop diameter smaller than nozzle diameter and applied high viscosity conductive ink in EHD patterning method provide a clear advantage over the piezo and thermal inkjet printing techniques. The micro electrode pattern was printed by continuous EHD patterning method using 3-type control parameters (input voltage, patterning speed, nozzle pressure). High viscosity (1000cps) conductive ink with 75wt% of silver nanoparticles was used. EHD cone type nozzle having an internal diameter of $50{\mu}m$ was used for experimentation. EHD jetting mode by input voltage and applied 1st order linear regression in stable jet mode was analyzed. The stable jet was achieved at the amplitude of 1.4~1.8 kV. $10{\mu}m$ micro electrode pattern was created at optimized parameters (input voltage 1.6kV, patterning speed 25mm/sec and nozzle pressure -2.3kPa).