• 소성∙가공
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.156-159
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• 2009

Slot coating has been wide spread in photo-resist coating on the glass for liquid crystal display. Die in slot coater consists of manifold and land. Material comes in inlet of the die and flow into the manifold and then flow out through the land. The coating thickness variations along the die length depend upon inside of die design such as manifold and die land. However the coating thickness variations along the moving direction(coating direction) of the coater depend upon the operational conditions of coater as well as die lip design. The coating behaviors including atmospheric air have been investigated in this study. Die geometries considered in this study were nozzle gap and length of the die lip. Coating gap and coating speed were the variables fur coating operational conditions. When the nozzle gap and length of die lip increased climbing effect of PR on the downstream die lip was reduced. Subsequently uniformity of coating thickness improved. Uniformity of coating thickness also enhanced as coating gap and coater speed increased. The uniformity of coating gap was related to the velocity vector distributions on the coating surface.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.282-287
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• 2013

슬롯코팅은 평판 디스플레이의 부품을 위해 유리에 감광제를 코팅방법으로 많이 쓰이고 있다. 갈수록 고화질의 디스플레이가 요구됨에 따라 코팅의 고품질도 요구되고 있다. 슬롯코팅에서 코팅의 품질은 노즐방향의 코팅 균일성과 운전방향의 코팅 균일성으로 평가된다. 노즐방향의 코팅 균일성은 코터다이 내부의 설계에 의존되며 운전방향의 코팅 균일성은 코터다이 외부의 모양과 운전조건에 의존된다. 본 연구에서는 스롯코팅에서 운전방향의 코팅 균일성에 대해서 컴퓨터해석을 통하여 조사하였다. 해석에서 다이 외부의 형상으로 다이 립 각도와 길이를 변수로 하였고, 운전조건으로는 코팅속도를 변수로 하여 코팅 현상을 분석하고 코팅의 품질을 평가하였다. 코팅속도가 커질수록 코팅두께가 얇아지며 코팅의 균일성이 증대되었으나 maniscus형성이 불안정하여 코팅의 안정성은 감소되었다. Down stream 다이 립 각도가 커질수록 코팅두께의 편차는 작아졌으며, Down stream 다이 립 길이가 길수록 코팅 두께는 얇아졌고 안정적인 코팅이 이루어지기까지의 시간이 길어졌다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.92-96
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• 2019

In the presence of ${\mu}-tip$ embedded in a slot-die head for stripe coatings, there arises the capillary flow that limits an increase of the stripe density, which is required for the potential applications in organic light-emitting diode displays. With an attempt to suppress it, we have employed a computational fluid dynamics software and performed simulations by varying the ${\mu}-tip$ length and the contact angles of the head lip and ${\mu}-tip$. We have first demonstrated that such a capillary flow phenomenon (a spread of solution along the head lip) observed experimentally can be reproduced by the computational fluid dynamics software. Through simulations, we have found that stronger capillary flow is observed in the hydrophilic head lip with a smaller contact angle and it is suppressed effectively as the contact angle increases. When the contact angle of the head lip increases from $16^{\circ}$ to $130^{\circ}$, the distance a solution can reach decreases sharply from $256{\mu}m$ to $44{\mu}m$. With increasing contact angle of the ${\mu}-tip$, however, the solution flow along the ${\mu}-tip$ is disturbed and thus the capillary flow phenomenon becomes more severe. If the ${\mu}-tip$ is long, the capillary flow also appears strong due to an increase of flow resistance (electronic-hydraulic analogy). It can be suppressed by reducing the ${\mu}-tip$ length, but not as effectively as reducing the contact angle of the head lip.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2019

The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of the microtip length in a slot-die head on coating of a fine poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) stripe. To this end, we have employed a meniscus guide with a 150-㎛-wide microtip and performed roll-to-roll slot-die coatings by varying its length between 500 ㎛ and 50 ㎛. When the microtip length is 150 ㎛ or shorter, we have observed three unexpected phenomena; 1) though the solution spreads much wider than the microtip width, yet the coated stripe width is almost the same as the microtip width, 2) the stripe width decreases, but the stripe thickness is rather increased with increasing coating speed at a fixed flow rate, 3) we obtain stripes much narrower than the microtip width at high coating speeds. It is due to the fact that 1) the meniscus is not well controlled by a short microtip, 2) the main stream of solution from the outlet is very close to the substrate and thus the distributed solution along the head lip merges with the main stream, and 3) the solution is not spread over the entire microtip end at high coating speeds, causing a tiny wobble in the meniscus. Using the 150-㎛-wide and 250-㎛-long microtip, we have fabricated 153-㎛-wide and 94-nm-thick PEDOT:PSS stripe at the maximum coating speed of 13 mm/s. To demonstrate its applicability in solution-processable organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), we have also fabricated an OLED device with the fine PEDOT:PSS stripe and obtained strong light emission from it.