A FLEXURE-BASED ROLL-TO-ROLL MACHINE FOR FABRICATING FLEXIBLE PHOTONIC DEVICES

摘要

In this paper, we present the characterization and precision control of a flexure-based roll-to-roll (R2R) printing system as well as the adaptation of a Microcontact Printing (MCP) process to the R2R platform for fabricating submicron resolution flexible photonic devices, including 600 nm optical gratings and various gold and silver electrodes for organic electronic devices. High-resolution continuous R2R printing is enabled by the fully automated flexure-based R2R machine with multi-axis misalignment correction capability.