Latest Microprinting Devices for Printable Electronics

Abstract

Our company entered the market of printable electronics in 2000 and started off with the manufacture of coating equipment for liquid crystal display (LCD) alignment films. We then started conducting research and development (R&D), on request, to determine whether a 100-μm fine line can be printed. We discovered that it is important to collaborate amongst different fields to improve our technical expertise level of printable electronics by means of gravure and letterpress. Since much small-sized R&D equipment has already been installed by users, we hope that many of them will upgrade to the next stage of production equipment. Such upgraded production equipment will be necessary to achieve targets of large size and super-fine resolution.