• 한국생산제조학회지
• /
• 제25권3호
• /
• pp.217-223
• /
• 2016

In this research, a continuous roll-to-roll screen printing system was developed using a flat screen. It has a newly devised sliding mechanism of screen printing module, which can be controlled accurately in sync with a moving web, driven by a roll-to-roll tension control and web-guiding system. In addition, the real-time precision alignment module that consists of a vision camera and an $X-Y-{\theta}$ alignment stage was implemented. With this developed system, the feasibility of continuous printing with minimum pattern width below $60{\mu}m$ was verified, and an overlay of ${\pm}60{\mu}m$ between the laser-patterned reference mark and the printed mark on a 300-mm-wide film was achieved.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
• /
• 제37권3호
• /
• pp.287-294
• /
• 2013

롤투롤 인쇄전자 시스템은 높은 생산성과 낮은 원가를 이점으로 인쇄전자 산업에서 가장 각광을 받고 있는 인쇄기술 중 하나이다. 이러한 롤투롤 인쇄전자 시스템에서 인쇄패턴의 특성은 인쇄물의 기능적 성질을 결정짓는 중요한 문제라 할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 인쇄패턴의 특성을 결정짓는 주요 인자들이 특별히 인쇄패턴의 두께와 표면 조도에 미치는 영향성에 대한 분석이 수행되었다. 실험계획법을 적용하여 인쇄패턴의 두께와 표면조도에 대한 각 인자의 주효과 및 교호작용 효과를 정량적으로 제시하였고, 분산분석을 통해 유의한 인자를 찾아내었다. 또한 이에 따르는 통계적 모델이 주요 인자의 함수로서 개발되었다. 이러한 결과는 롤투롤 전자인쇄 시스템의 특징에 따라 요구되는 인쇄패턴의 특성을 얻는데 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국재료학회 2009년도 춘계학술발표대회
• /
• pp.15.2-15.2
• /
• 2009

Manufacturing of printed electronics using printing technology has begun to get into the hot issue in many ways due to the low cost effectiveness to existing semi-conductor process. This technology with both low cost and high productivity, can be applied in the production of organic thin film transistor (OTFT), solar cell, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, printed battery, E-paper, touch screen panel, black matrix for liquid crystal display (LCD), flexible display, and so forth. The emerging technology to manufacture the products in mass production is roll-to-roll printing technology which is a manufacturing method by printings of multi-layered patterns composed of semi-conductive, dielectric and conductive layers. In contrary to the conventional printing machines in which printing precision is about $50~100{\mu}m$, the printing machines for printed electronics should have a precision under $30{\mu}m$. In general, in order to implement printed electronics, narrow width and gap printing, register of multi-layer printing by several printing units, and printing accuracy of under $30{\mu}m$ are all required. We developed the roll-to-roll printing equipment used for printed electronics, which is composed of un-winder, re-winder, tension measurement system, feeding units, dancer systems, guide unit, printing unit, vision system, dryer units, and various auxiliary devices. The equipment is designed based on cantilever type in which all rollers except printing ones have cantilever types, which could give more accurate machine precision as well as convenience for changing rollers and observing the process.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
• /
• 제36권2호
• /
• pp.173-178
• /
• 2012

최근 RFID, 유연디스플레이, 태양전지, 전자 종이 등의 소자를 프린팅 방식을 이용하여 생산하려는 연구가 활발하게 진행 되고 있다. 이런 방식이 기존의 노광기술과 식각기술에 의존하는 반도체 공정에 비해 가격 경쟁력에서 우수하기 때문이다. 특히 RFID, 유연디스플레이, 태양전지, 전자 종이 등은 유연성과 대량생산을 필요로 하기 때문에 롤투롤(roll to roll)공정과 같은 저가격화, 대형생산화에 관심이 집중되고 있다. 이 롤투롤 기술을 사용하기 위해서는 인쇄 패턴의 빠른 구현, 표면 균일도, 두께 등의 높은 인쇄 품질이 보장 되어야 한다. 본 연구는 실험계획법(Design of Experiment)을 적용하여 인자들의 주효과와 교호작용 효과를 분석하고, 롤투롤 전자인쇄 시스템에서 닙 롤의 특성에 따른 인쇄 품질의 영향과 인쇄 품질의 향상 방안을 찾기 위한 매칭기술을 제안 하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국정밀공학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
• /
• pp.235-236
• /
• 2009

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
• /
• pp.461-466
• /
• 2007

There has been a great interest in printing technology as a low cost and mass production method for the application of printed electronics such as printed TFT, solar cell, RFID Tag, printed battery, and so on. In this study, apparatuses of gravure-offset printing are developed for fine line-width/gap printing and examining pattern distortion occurred in gravure-offset printing process. The fine line-width/gap pattern shows that it is possible to make around 20 micro-meter line-width/gap printing patterns. Pattern distortion is modeled, and the amount and shape of the distortion are calculated by using commercial FEM code. The roll-to-roll printing system under development consists of unwinder/rewinder, two printing units, one coating unit, drying units, guiding unit, vision system, and other auxiliary devices. For multi-layer printing, the system is designed to be capable of printing two different materials.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국재료학회 2010년도 춘계학술발표대회
• /
• pp.19.1-19.1
• /
• 2010

The process of manufacturing printed electronics using printing technology is attracting attention because its process cost is lower than that of the conventional semiconductor process. This technology, which offers both a lower cost and higher productivity, can be applied in the production of organic TFT (thin film transistor), solar cell, RFID(radio frequency identification) tag, printed battery, E-paper, touch screen panel, black matrix for LCD(liquid crystal display), flexible display, and so forth. In general, in order to implement printed electronics, narrow width and gap printing, registration of multi-layer printing by several printing units, and printing accuracy of under $20\;{\mu}m$ are all required. These electronic products require high precision to the degree of tens of microns - in a large area with flexible material, and mass productivity at low cost. As such, the roll-to-roll printing process is attracting attention as a mass production system for these printed electronic devices. For the commercialization of this process, two basic electronic ink technologies, such as conductive ink and polymers, and printing equipment have to be developed. Therefore, this paper addressed basis design and test to develop fine patterning equipment employing the roll-to-roll printing equipment and electronic ink.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국정밀공학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
• /
• pp.465-466
• /
• 2011

• 한국정밀공학회지
• /
• 제26권10호
• /
• pp.65-73
• /
• 2009

For mass production of printed electronics in roll-to-roll fashion, precision tension control is important to reduce register errors. Register error should be minimized within several to tens of microns for many electronic devices to be manufactured through printing technology. In order to achieve this goal, tension disturbance must be attenuated before printing process within a certain range. In this paper, a certain tension range which allows maintaining register error within 10 micron was defined with specific operating conditions. A LQG controller was proposed instead of the conventional PI controller for precision tension control using a multivariable feedback. A guideline to determine design parameters for calculating LQ gain was proposed. The proposed LQG controller was compared to both PI controller and LQ regulator with white noise by numerical simulations. Results showed that the proposed LQG controller was effective for attenuating tension disturbance with white noise.

• 한국기계가공학회지
• /
• 제12권5호
• /
• pp.9-15
• /
• 2013

Roll-to-roll printing technology has lately become a subject of special interests in the field of printed electronics. Since this technology has the advantage that continuous and mass production is possible. And for high precision register control is required in multi-layer printing to produce the electronic devices, this is one of the most important technologies in roll-to-roll printing technology. Register error could be generated by various reasons like eccentricity of roll and thermal deformation due to temperature variation in drying section. In this study, the effect of tension variation on the register was analyzed. The results of these analyses show that it is essential to consider the tension disturbance which is generated by the change of temperature in drying section, and conventional register model has limitation to estimate the register error. In order to overcome the limitation of the register model, advanced register model based on the SI process was developed. Also, the performance of the developed model was verified experimentally.