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Ink Jet Tools for Precision Materials Deposition

  • Creagh, Linda T.;Schoeppler, Martin W.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.811-813
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    • 2005
  • Purpose-built ink jet printheads are being recognized as useful tools in manufacturing where precision deposition is required. Ink jet technology is a non-contact, non-contaminating digital process compatible with clean rooms. New manufacturing applications are driving printhead designs to smaller drops, increased productivity. This paper describes Dimatix's new tools designed to facilitate development of manufacturing processes for both rigid and flexible substrates and development of new electronic fluids.

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Interconnection Technology Based on InSn Solder for Flexible Display Applications

  • Choi, Kwang-Seong;Lee, Haksun;Bae, Hyun-Cheol;Eom, Yong-Sung;Lee, Jin Ho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.387-394
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    • 2015
  • A novel interconnection technology based on a 52InSn solder was developed for flexible display applications. The display industry is currently trying to develop a flexible display, and one of the crucial technologies for the implementation of a flexible display is to reduce the bonding process temperature to less than $150^{\circ}C$. InSn solder interconnection technology is proposed herein to reduce the electrical contact resistance and concurrently achieve a process temperature of less than $150^{\circ}C$. A solder bump maker (SBM) and fluxing underfill were developed for these purposes. SBM is a novel bumping material, and it is a mixture of a resin system and InSn solder powder. A maskless screen printing process was also developed using an SBM to reduce the cost of the bumping process. Fluxing underfill plays the role of a flux and an underfill concurrently to simplify the bonding process compared to a conventional flip-chip bonding using a capillary underfill material. Using an SBM and fluxing underfill, a $20{\mu}m$ pitch InSn solder SoP array on a glass substrate was successfully formed using a maskless screen printing process, and two glass substrates were bonded at $130^{\circ}C$.

Characteristics of Amorphous IZO Anode Films Grown on Passivated PES Substrates in Oxygen Free Ambient for Flexible OLEDs (아르곤 가스만을 이용하여 PES 기판 상에 성장시킨 플렉시블 유기발광소자용 비정질 IZO 애노드 박막의 특성)

  • Bae, Jung-Hyeok;Moon, Jong-Min;Jung, Soon-Wook;Kang, Jae-Wook;Kim, Han-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.1134-1139
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    • 2006
  • Electrical, optical, and structural properties of indium zinc oxide (IZO) anode films grown by a RF magnetron sputtering were investigated as functions of RF power and working pressure in pure Ar ambient. To investigate electrical, optical and structural properties of IZO anode films, 4-point probe and UV/VIS spectrometry, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were performed, respectively. A sheet resistance of $15.2{\Omega}/{\square}$, average transmittance above 80 % in visible range, expecially above 85 % in 550 nm, and root mean square roughness of 1.13 nm were obtained from optimized IZO anode films grown in oxygen free ambient. All samples show amorphous structure regardless of RF power and working pressure due to low substrate temperature. In addition, XPS depth profile obtained from IZO/PES exhibits that there is no obvious evidence of interfacial reaction between IZO and PES substrate. Furthermore, current-voltage-luminance of the flexible phosphorescent flexible OLEDs fabricated on IZO anode shows dependence on sheet resistance of the IZO anode. These results indicate that the IZO anode is a promising candidate to substitute conventional ITO anode for high-quality flexible displays.

Flexible Energy-storage Devices: Maneuvers and Intermediate Towards Multi-functional Composites

  • Son, Ji Myeong;Oh, Il Kwon
    • Composites Research
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.355-364
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    • 2018
  • Flexible energy-storage devices (FESDs) have been studied and developed extensively over the last few years because of demands in various fields. Since electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility must be taken into account together, different framework from composition of conventional energy-storage devices (ESDs) is required. Numerous types of electrodes have been proposed to implement the FESDs. Herein, we review the works related to the FESDs so far and focus on free-standing electrodes and, especially substrate-based ones. The way to utilize carbon woven fabric (CF) or carbon cloth (CC) as flexible substrates is quite simple and intuitive. However, it is meaningful in the point of that the framework exploiting CF or CC can be extended to other applications resulting in multifunctional composites. Therefore, summary, which is on utilization of carbon-based material and conductive substrate containing CF and CC for ESDs, turns out to be helpful for other researchers to have crude concepts to get into energy-storage multi-functional composite. Moreover, polymer electrolytes are briefly explored as well because safety is one of the most important issues in FESDs and the electrolyte part mainly includes difficult obstacles to overcome. Lastly, we suggest some points that need to be further improved and studied for FESDs.

Transfer Methods of Inorganic Thin Film Materials for Heterogeneously- Integration Flexible Semiconductor System (이종 집적 유연 반도체 시스템 구현을 위한 무기물 박막소재의 전사 방법)

  • Gyeong Hyeon Ju;Jeong Hyeon Kim;Sang Yoon Park;Kang Hyeon Kim;Han Eol Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.241-252
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    • 2024
  • With the recent development of emerging technologies, information acquisition and delivery between users has been actively conducted, and inorganic thin film transfer technology that effectively transfers various materials and devices is being studied to develop flexible electronic devices accordingly. This is aimed at innovative structural changes and functional improvement of electronic devices in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT). In particular, advanced technologies such as microLEDs are used to realize high-resolution flexible displays, and the possibility of heterogeneous integrated technologies can be presented by precisely transferring materials to substrates through various transfer process. This paper introduced physical, chemical, and self-assembly transfer methods based on inorganic thin film materials to implement heterogeneous integrated flexible semiconductor systems and introduces the results of application studies of semiconductor devices obtained through different transfer technologies. These studies are expected to bring about innovative changes in the field of smart devices, medical technology, and user interfaces in the future.

Stability-Enhanced Liquid Crystal Mode for Flexible Display Applications

  • Jung, Jong-Wook;Jang, Se-Jin;Lee, You-Jin;Kim, Hak-Rin;Jin, Min-Young;Kim, Jae-Hoon
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2005
  • We demonstrated stability-enhanced liquid crystal (LC) displays using pixel-isolated LC mode in which LC molecules are isolated in pixel by horizontal polymer layer and vertical polymer wall. The device shows good electro-optic properties against external point or bending pressure due to the polymer structures. The polymer wall acts as supporting structure from mechanical pressure and prevents the cell gap from bending. Moreover, the polymer layer acts as an adhesive to ensure a tight attachment of the two substrates. We present herein various methods for producing polymer structures by using an anisotropic phase separation from LC and polymer composites or patterned micro-structures for stable flexible liquid crystal displays.

Fabrication and characteristics of the flexible DSSC

  • Choe, Eun-Chang;Choe, Won-Chang;Wi, Jin-Uk;Hong, Byeong-Yu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.400.2-400.2
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    • 2016
  • Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been widely investigated as a next generation solar cell because of their simple structure and low manufacturing cost. To realize a commercially competitive technology of DSSCs, it is imperative to employ a technique to prepare nanocrystlline thin film on the flexible organic substrate, aiming at increasing the flexibility and reducing the weight as well as the overall device thickness of DSSCs. The key operation of glass-to-plastic substrates conversion is to prepare mesoporous TiO2 thin film at low temperature with a high surface area for dye adsorption and a high degree of crystallinity for fast transport of electrons. However, the electron transport in the TiO2 film synthesized at low temperature is very poor. So, in this study, TiO2 films synthesized at high temperature were transferred on the selective substrate. We fabricated DSSCs at low temperature using this method. So, we confirmed that the performance of DSSCs using TiO2 films synthesized at high temperature was improved.

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Mechanically Flexible and Transparent Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistor on Plastic Substrates (Plastic 기판 상의 투명성과 유연성을 지닌 Zinc Oxide 박막 트랜지스터)

  • Park, Kyung-Yea;Ahn, Jong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.10-10
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    • 2009
  • We have fabricated transparent and flexible thin film transistor(TFT) on polyethylene terephthalate(PET) substrate using Zinc Oxide (ZnO) and Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) film as active layer and electrode. The transfer printing method was used for printing the device layer on target plastic substrate at room temperature. This approach have an advantage to separate the high temperature annealing process to improve the electrical properties of ZnO TFT from the device process on plastic substrate. The resulting devices on plastic substrate presented mechanical and electrical properties similar with those on rigid substrate.

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A Study on Properties of PVA/$SiO_2$ Organic-inorganic Hybrid Materials Barrier Layer Coated on Flexible Substrate (PEN)

  • Koo, Tae-Wook;Farva, Umme;Yu, Eric S.H.;Kim, Yun-Su;Park, Chin-Ho
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.657-659
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    • 2008
  • Barrier coating properties of PVA/$SiO_2$ on the flexible substrates (PEN) have been investigated. Thin layer of PVA/$SiO_2$ organic-inorganic hybrid materials were deposited on PEN substrate by the spin-coating. The optical properties and surface roughness of barrier layer on flexible substrate were characterized by AFM, UV-Vis and WVTR/ OTR.

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The Investigation of flexible flat display in improving flexibility

  • Huang, Chi-Yuan;Tsao, Keng-Yu;Chou, Ruei-Shu;Chiang, Wen-Yen;Mo, Chi-Neng;Lyu, Robert
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.660-663
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    • 2008
  • In this study, it was mainly focused on the mechanism and reliability performances of PI/PET composites after many times of curving. We developed a new process of spacer for flexible display to improve the maintenance of cell gap. This new process used the laser carving technology, which is widely applied on printing press, to produce the pattern of spacers and shaped both of the alignment film and spacers simultaneously by press of pattern. Assembling the spacer-shaped film and plastic substrates together well and it shows an excellent performance on the maintenance of cell gap and reliability of curving.

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