Screen Printing Empowers Flexible Battery Production

摘要

Wouldn't it be convenient if your bottle of prescription medication read usage directions to you aloud and reminded you when to take your pills? Wouldn't it be handy if your ATM card recorded transactions and monitored your account balance, making paper receipts unnecessary? These futuristic solutions aren't years away; they're being developed right now thanks to a breakthrough in power technology―ultra-thin flexible paper batteries that are produced with the screen-printing process. Today, these caseless, environmentally friendly power sources, which offer long life and can be manufactured into parts of all shapes and sizes, are being produced by Graphic Solutions, Inc. (GSI), a label, nameplate, panel, and electronics printer based in Burr Ridge, IL. The company was the first North American manufacturer licensed by the developers of the technology, Power Paper Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, to produce the batteries in sheet form.