Towards Realizing High-Throughput, Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Flexible Electronic Systems

Xiaohui Lin; Harish Subbaraman; Zeyu Pan; Amir Hosseini; Chris Longe; Klay Kubena; Paul Schleicher; Phillip Foster; Sean Brickey; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.3390/electronics3040624

Electronics (Nov 2014)

Towards Realizing High-Throughput, Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Flexible Electronic Systems

Xiaohui Lin,
Harish Subbaraman,
Zeyu Pan,
Amir Hosseini,
Chris Longe,
Klay Kubena,
Paul Schleicher,
Phillip Foster,
Sean Brickey,
Ray T. Chen

Affiliations

Xiaohui Lin: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Harish Subbaraman: Omega Optics, Inc., 8500 Shoal Creek Blvd, Building 4, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78757, USA
Zeyu Pan: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Amir Hosseini: Omega Optics, Inc., 8500 Shoal Creek Blvd, Building 4, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78757, USA
Chris Longe: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Klay Kubena: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Paul Schleicher: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Phillip Foster: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Sean Brickey: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Ray T. Chen: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics3040624
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. 624 – 635

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High-rate roll-to-roll (R2R) tracker systems are utilized for large volume flexible electronic device manufacturing, and the current alignment mechanism between layers is mainly achieved by relying on passive techniques. In this paper, we present a machine vision based alignment strategy that is used to achieve precise registration for stacking multilayers. Based on this strategy, we demonstrate two-layer printing with alignment accuracy better than 100 μm in web moving direction and 200 μm in lateral direction at a web rate of 5 m/min.

Published in Electronics

ISSN: 2079-9292 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Electronics
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics

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