Process study on roll-to-roll ultraviolet (UV) embossing

Author

Shan, X.C. ; Yu, Voytekunas V. ; Mohaime, M. ; Zhong, Z.W. ; Wong, S.J. ; Lau, S.K. ; Lin, W.J. ; Lu, C.W.

Author_Institution

Singapore Inst. of Manuf. Technol. (SIMTech), Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2010

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

235

Abstract

We aim to develop roll-to-roll (R2R) large area ultraviolet (UV) embossing process for structuring micro features on flexible plastic films. Critical challenges in R2R UV embossing include but not limited to (i) precise deposition of liquid UV curable resins, and (ii) realizing low temperature and low pressure micro-structuring using UV curing. We have developed a R2R UV embossing system, which consists of an unwinding unit and a rewinding one for handing flexible plastic films, a slot die coating unit, an embossing roller, and a UV lamp for exposure and curing of UV sensitive resins. The system can handle 500 mm web-width flexible films; the coating width of the slot die is 250 mm. By using different flexible moulds, various structures were fabricated via R2R UV embossing.

Keywords

curing; embossing; microfabrication; plastics; polymer films; resins; ultraviolet radiation effects; UV lamp; flexible plastic film; liquid UV curable resin; microfeature structure; roll-to-roll large area ultraviolet embossing process; size 250 mm; size 500 mm; slot die coating unit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC), 2010 12th

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8560-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8561-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPTC.2010.5702638

Filename

5702638