• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.30-35
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• 2009

In this paper, the type of inkjet heads and the control of head of inkjet printer are surveyed. The electronic parts of inkjet printer are composed of main- board and sub-board. The inkjet head is controlled by using these boards. The results from silver ink jetting experiment are given. The results show that the implemented inkjet system can give a satisfactory performance.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1947-1950
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• 2008

Printing technology is a very useful method in the several process of industrial fabrication due to noncontact and fast pattern generation. To make micro pattern, we investigate the electrostatic induced inkjet printer head for micro droplet generation and drop-on-demand jetting. In order to achieve the drop-on-demand micro droplet ejection by the electrostatic induced inkjet printer head, the pulsed DC voltage is supplied. In order to find optimal pulse conditions, we tested jetting performance for various bias and pulse voltages for drop-on-demand ejection. In this result, we have successful drop-on-demand operation and micro patterning. Therefore, our novel electrostatic induced inkjet head printing system will be applied industrial area comparing conventional printing technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.655-658
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• 1997

In this paper, we intend to develop optimized design algorithm by deciding design parameters which are considered in the first design stage of inkjet printer head. thus, the parameters are such as electric pulse, input voltage of actuator to operate actuator, shape dimension of actuator an so on. in the first design stage, according to such parameters, a lot of time and money to develop inkject printer head are needed. to reduce trial and error and to save development time in the first design stage, optimized design algorithm is required all the more. design algorithm was developed via commercial FE analysis code(ANSYS & COENTOR) for the readability and convenience of algorithm. the reasonability of algorithm was verified by implementing analysis of system stage based on the data of piezoelectric actuator which was designed through algorithm.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.73-81
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• 2011

We manufactured the inkjet printing system for the application into the nano Ag finger line interconnection process in Si solar cells. The home-made inkjet printer consists of motion part for XY motion stage with optical table, head part, power and control part in the rack box with pump, and ink supply part for the connection of pump-tube-sub ink tanknozzle. The ink jet printing system has been used to conduct the interconnection process of finger lines on Si solar cell. The nano ink includes the 50 nm-diameter. Ag nano particles and the viscosity is 14.4 cP at $22^{\circ}C$. After processing of inkjet printing on the finger lines of Si solar cell, the nano particles were measured by scanning electron microscope. After the heat treatment at $850^{\circ}C$, the finger lines showed the smooth surface morphology without micropores.

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.128-133
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• 2007

An electrostatic inkjet head can be used for manufacturing processes of large display systems and printed circuit boards (PCB) as well as inkjet printers because an electrostatic field provides an external force which can be manipulated to control sizes of droplets. The existing printing methods such as thermal bubble and piezo inkjet heads have shown difficulties to control the ejection of the droplets for printing applications. Thus, the new inkjet head has been proposed using the electrostatic force. A numerical analysis has been performed to calculate the intensity of the electrostatic field using the Maxwell's equation. Also, experiments have been carried out to investigate the droplet movement using a downward capillary with outside diameter of $500{\mu}m$. Gravity, surface tension, and electrostatic force have been analyzed with high voltages for a drop-on-demand ejection. It has been observed that the droplet size decreases and the frequency of the droplet formation and the velocity of the droplet ejection increase with increasing the intensity of the electrostatic field using high-speed camera.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1892-1897
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• 2003

A new thermal inkjet printer head on SOI wafer with virtual valve was proposed. It was composed of two rectangular heaters with same size. So we could call it T-jet(Twin jet). T-jet has a lot of merits. It has the advantage of being fabricated with one wafer and is easy to change the size of chamber, nozzle, restrictor and so on. However, above all, It is the best point that T-jet has a virtual valve. And it was manufactured on SOI wafer. The chamber was formed in its upper silicon whose thickness was 40um. The chamber's bottom layer was silicon dioxide of SOI wafer and two heaters were located underneath the chamber's ceiling. And the restirctor was made beside the chamber. Nozzle was molded by process of Ni plating. Ni was 30um thick. Nozzle ejection test was performed by printer head having 56 nozzles in 2 columns with 600NPI(nozzle per inch) and black ink. It measured a drop velocity of 12m/s, a drop volume of 30pl, and a maximum firing frequency of 12KHz for single nozzle ejection. Throwing out the ink drop in whole nozzles at the same time, it was observed that the uniformity of the drop velocity and volume was less than 4%.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.4 no.2 s.11
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• pp.21-24
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• 2005

Ink-jetting characteristics of pulse width and pulse amplitude for a piezoelectric ink jet printer driver have been mapped with various polymer EL ink. In this study, the jetting characteristics have been classified into 4 regime; no Jetting, unstable jetting, stable jetting, and spraying, and the importance of fluid viscosity on the scope of the stable jetting regime has been emphasized. The relation between jetting speed and the width and amplitude of driving signal has also been investigated and the effect of the speed on the jetting characteristics has been discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.154-154
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• 2006

Samsung Electro Mechanics ink jet has developed ultra high resolution alignment system. The alignment system has been developed for repeatable printing of conductive ink. The resolution of alignment system is 0.5um and the velocity of printing working plate is 1.5m/s. So far repeated printing results included sintering process have over 30um of drop mislocation data. In order to improve line thickness and conductivity of metal line, we need to develop the higher mechanical accurate align system. On the demand, this developed align system has under $1{\sim}2{\mu}m$ mispositioning performance and can measure of mechanical accuracy of inkjet printer, as well as the straightness of jetted drop from inkjet head. There is no kinds limit of substrate and ink to use SEM alignment system. By using this alignment system, we progress two experiment of reiterate printing drop and making conductive line on the glass and photo paper. Optical microscope and 3D profiler has been used for measurement of printed ink.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2003

The crystallized stable cobalt silicide$(CoSi_2)$ films were prepared on $poly-Si/SiO_2/Si$substrates for the application of inkjet printing head as a heating element with omega shape. The structural images and temperature resistance coefficient were investigated. The value of temperature resistance coefficient of the heating element was found to be about $0.0014/^{\circ}C$. The maximum power of the heating element was 2 W at the applied voltage of 2 V, 10 kHz in frequency and $1{\mu}s$ in pulse width. From the investigation of fatigue property according to the repeated applied voltages, there was no drastic changes in the resistances of heating element under the condition of $10^8$ pulsed cycles at below 15 V biased voltage. In contrast, the resistance of heating element was greatly increased at $10^6$ pulsed cycles when the heating element was operated at 17 V.