• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2009년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.3.2-3.2
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• 2009

Development of printed electronics, which is occasionally referred to as 'flexible' or 'polymer' electronics, has attracted considerable world wide attention in recent years. Printed (or flexible) electronics is currently expected to represent a new form of electronics and open up wide ranging applications in displays, electron devices for medical use, sensors, and other areas. This presentation aims to provide a strategy for scalable and viable paths to accomplish flexible, printable, large area circuits displaying high performance. Novel approaches evolving from system on package (SoP) to system on flex (SoF) technology will allow the integration of heterogeneous materials platforms into a system which is needed to enhance the functionality of the system. The talk also includes speculations about areas on which future advances in printed electronics could have a substantial impact along with a brief introduction of the Korea Printed Electronics Association (KoPEA).

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.497-504
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• 2014

The digital signage display is actively researched as the next generation of large FPD. To commercialize those digital signage display, the manufacturing cost must be downed with printing method instead of conventional photolithography. Here, we demonstrate a reverse offset printed TFT electrodes for the digital signage display. For the fabricated source/drain and gate electrode, we used Ag ink, silicone blanket, Clich$\acute{e}$ and reverse offset printer. We printed uniform TFT electrode patterns with narrow line width(10 ${\mu}m$ range) and thin thickness(nm range). In the end the printing source/drain and gate electrode are successfully achieved by optimization of experimental conditions such as Clich$\acute{e}$ surface treatment, ink coating process, delay time, off/set process and curing temperature. Also, we checked that the printing align accuracy was within 5 ${\mu}m$.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.287-294
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• 2013

롤투롤 인쇄전자 시스템은 높은 생산성과 낮은 원가를 이점으로 인쇄전자 산업에서 가장 각광을 받고 있는 인쇄기술 중 하나이다. 이러한 롤투롤 인쇄전자 시스템에서 인쇄패턴의 특성은 인쇄물의 기능적 성질을 결정짓는 중요한 문제라 할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 인쇄패턴의 특성을 결정짓는 주요 인자들이 특별히 인쇄패턴의 두께와 표면 조도에 미치는 영향성에 대한 분석이 수행되었다. 실험계획법을 적용하여 인쇄패턴의 두께와 표면조도에 대한 각 인자의 주효과 및 교호작용 효과를 정량적으로 제시하였고, 분산분석을 통해 유의한 인자를 찾아내었다. 또한 이에 따르는 통계적 모델이 주요 인자의 함수로서 개발되었다. 이러한 결과는 롤투롤 전자인쇄 시스템의 특징에 따라 요구되는 인쇄패턴의 특성을 얻는데 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.477-481
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• 2014

Flexible electronics have been to the fore because it is believed that flexibility can add incredible value such as light weight and mobility into the existing electronic devices and create new markets of large-area and low-cost electronics such as wearable eletronics in near future. Offset printing processes are regarded as major candidates for manufacturing the flexible electronics because they can provide the patterning resolution of micron-size effectively in large-area. In view of mechanics, the most important viewpoint in offset printing is how to achieve the synchronized movement of two contact surfaces in order to prevent slip between two contact surfaces and distortion of the blanket surface during ink transfer so that the high-resolution and good-overlay patterns can be printed. In this paper, a novel low-cost measurement method of the synchronization error using the motor control output signals is proposed and the compensation method is presented to minimize the synchronization error.

• 한국인쇄학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2011

The making of high leveled smoothness for the printed electronics base paper, wood pulp and sea algal pulp were mixed. If sea algal pulp contents is increased to 9%, the smoothness was moderately increased, and more effective in Softwood mixture than Hardwood, low freeness(high wetness) than high freeness(low wetness).

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권9호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2010

The effect of micro surface structure on printing for printed electronics has been studied experimentally. The photolithography MEMS fabricationwass used to make a SU-8 molder which has micro structures on the surface, and the PDMS micro structure was fabricated by the PDMS molding method. In the aspect of printed electronics, we used silver paste conductive ink. We measured the surface energy variation on pillar microstructure. The microstructure was used to real printing experiment by a screen printing. We printed 1cm micro lines which have $30{\sim}250{\mu}m$ width, and checked the conductivity to sort out opened line pattern. Printability was defined by success probability of printed patterns and we found that the present microstructures improve the printability significantly.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.553-554
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• 2012

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.395-396
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• 2008

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제24권8호통권197호
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• pp.74-80
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• 2007

The distortion of printed pattern is frequently observed in gravure offset printing process, which can be a serious problem in printing process for printed electronics. The mechanism of pattern distortion is studied and the factors which affect the amount and shape of distortion are found using FEM. The amount and shape of distortion is influenced by material properties of the roller, thickness of roller, applied load, and so on. As the printing pressure increases and Possion ratio increases, the degree of the image distortion increases. And the increase of the thickness of rubber roller brings a large distortion of image, too. In some cases, the distortion of printed pattern can reach a few hundred micromillimeters. The comparison of the experiment result and the simulation result shows good agreement in their quantitative tendency.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.981-986
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• 2014

Printed electronics devices are made of several sets of printed patterns. The quality or printability of the printed patterns determines the electrical performance of such devices. Moreover, control of the printability determines the reliability of such devices. Despite its importance, few studies have been reported for the measurement of the printed patterns to evaluate their printability. In this study, a measurement method is proposed for printed patterns, including the definition of the properties to be measured, and the related software is described. The proposed method measures the width, pinholes, and edge waviness and evaluates the printability of the patterns quantitatively. The proposed measurement method could be an efficient tool to evaluate and enhance the printability of printed patterns in printed electronics.