The INM will be presenting flexible touch screens, which are printed on thin plastic foils with recently developed nanoparticle inks, using transparent, conductive oxides (TCOs).
Mobile phones and smart phones still haven‘t been adapted to the carrying habits of their users. That much is clear to anyone who has tried sitting down with a mobile phone in the back pocket: the displays of the innumerable phones and pods are rigid and do not yield to the anatomical forms adopted by the people carrying them. By now it is no longer any secret that the big players in the industry are working on flexible displays. How to produce suitable coatings for those cost-efficiently will be demonstrated by INM – Leibniz-Institute for New Materials at stand B46 in hall 2 at this year’s Hannover Messe as part of the leading trade fair for R & D and Technology Transfer which takes place from 25th to 29th April.
The INM will be presenting flexible touch screens, which are printed on thin plastic foils with recently developed nanoparticle inks, using transparent, conductive oxides (TCOs). These inks are suitable for a one-step printing process. Thus transparent lines and patterns are obtained by inkjet printing or alternatively by direct gravure printing, which are electrically conductive even after bending. Thus, a one-step-printing process for cost-efficient TCO structures is enabled.
Conductive coatings with TCOs are usually applied by means of high vacuum techniques such as sputtering. For patterning of the TCO coatings additional cost-intensive process steps are necessary, for example photolithography and etching.
“We use the TCOs to produce nanoparticles with special properties,” explains Peter William de Oliveira, Head of the Optical Materials Program Division. “The TCO ink is then created by adding a solvent and a special binder to these TCO particles. The binder performs several tasks here: it not only makes the TCO nanoparticles adhere well on the substrate; it also increases the flexibility of the TCO coating: in this way, the conductivity is maintained even when the films are bent”.
The ink can be applied to the film directly by inkjet or gravure printing. After curing under UV light at low temperatures less than 130 degrees centigrade, the coating is completed.
The transparent, electronically conductive inks allow conductor tracks to be produced unproblematically even on a large scale by means of classic reel-to-reel processes. Initial trials at INM have been promising. The researchers all agree that the use of structured rollers will in the future allow large, structured conductive surfaces to be printed with a high throughput at low cost.
Learn more: INKJET PROCESS TO PRINT FLEXIBLE TOUCHSCREENS COST-EFFICIENTLY
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