• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.14.2-14.2
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• 2009

잉크젯의 응용이 넓어 짐에 잉크젯 헤드에서의 잉크 토출을 효과적으로 제어해야되는 이슈가 대두 되고 있다. 이를 위해서는 잉크젯 헤드의 입력전압을 적절하게 인가 해야만 한다. 본 연구에서는 잉크젯 토출 현상을 이해하고 이를 통해 잉크젯 헤드의 최적의 입력 파형을 설계가 가능한 알고리즘을 소개 하려고 한다. 본 연구에서는 토출 현상을 측정하기 위하여 CCD 카메라의 이미지를 사용한 메니스커스 운동을 측정하였다. 측정된 메니스커스 운동은 잉크젯 헤드의 피에조에 인가되는 입력전압에 의해서 야기된 압력파가 노즐에 전달되어 나타나는 현상이다. 따라서 잉크젯 헤드내의 현상 뿐만 아니라 잉크젯 토출 현상의 많은 정보를 가지고 있다. 파형 설계를 위해서 메니스커스 운동의 주기를 측정하여 잉크젯 입력 파형의 최적의 휴지시간 (dwell time)을 결정하는것이 가능하였음을 실험적으로 검증하였다. 또한 메니스커스 운동을 측정 함으로서 설계된 파형을 평가하것도 용이함을 실험적으로 보였다.

• Ceramist
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.45-48
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• 2009

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.17 no.4 s.121
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• pp.333-341
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• 2007

Waveform design method for inkjet printing has been proposed tv pressure wave measurement. The pressure wane inside the inkjet dispenser can be effectively measured by current measurement due to self-sensing capability of PZT. The pressure wave measured from current was verified by commercially availablelaser vibrometer. In order to obtain high speed inkjet droplets, two pulse waveform was designed such that the pressure wane after droplet formation can be minimized.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.9
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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.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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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.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 2012

In this study, a piezoelectric inkjet nozzle with a rectangular shaped channel has been developed, and the characteristics of droplet formation have been investigated according to the variation of pulse widths in bipolar waveform. The channel of the nozzle was fabricated transparently by a precision machining technique. A tantalum membrane which was attached to a piezoelectric material covers the channel. By applying two types of bipolar waveforms to the piezoelectric actuators, droplet formation through the nozzle was monitored by a CCD camera. For the variety of the first and second pulse widths in the bipolar waveforms, the regimes of single and double droplet formations are presented. The change of droplet velocity which depends on the pulse width and the type of waveform is also discussed.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.26-29
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• 2008

In the fields of electronics and displays where inkjet printing has demonstrated its capability to fabricate colorant subpixels of thin film transistor liquid crystal(TFT LCD) color filters and organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, conducting tracks and TFTs, the production of satellite droplets is one of primary things to eliminate because they generally deteriorate the pattern quality. To understand the production mechanism of satellite droplets in this paper, driving waveforms such as monopolar and bipolar were employed and the influence of the pulse duration time were investigated in both experimental and numerical aspects.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.273-274
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• 2008

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.781-786
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• 2015

Recently, studies of 3D printing methods have been working in various applications. For example, the powder base method laminates the prints by using a binding or laser sintering method. However, the draw back of this method is that the post process is time consuming and does not allow for parts to be rapidly manufactured. The binding method requires the post process while the time required for the post process is longer than the manufacturing time. This paper proposes a UV curing binding method with an integrated piezo printing head system. The optimization of an arbitrary waveform generation for the control of a UV curable resin droplet was researched, in addition to developed optimized UV curing processes in multi nozzle ink jet heads.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1550-1551
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• 2007

노즐 직경 $30\;{\mu}$인 MEMS 압전 잉크젯 헤드를 이용하여 Ag 나노 잉크를 PDMS 처리된 PI(Polyimide) 기판 위에 토출하였다. 구동주파수 5 KHz에서 액적부피 1.5 pl, 속도가 약 4.5 m/s인 액적이 토출 되었다. 인쇄된 액적의 크기는 직경 약 $12\;{\mu}m$이었다. 메니스커스의 거동에 맞춘 구동파형의 입력에 의해 새틀라이트 없는 매우 작은 액적을 토출할 수 있었다.