PiXDRO LP 50 Inkjet

An inkjet printer deposits controlled droplets of liquid material onto a target surface without contact. Inkjet tools of this class are used for patterned material deposition, process development, and evaluation work where digital pattern definition and selective placement are important.

The LP50 platform includes Advanced Drop Analysis for ink jetting performance, Automatic Print Optimization for application results, dual printhead configuration, ink tank heating, and a recirculating ink supply for nanoparticle inks. The LP50 platform provides motion in X, Y, Z, and rotation of the substrate table and printhead. The LP50 supports a maximum substrate size of 227 mm x 327 mm and a maximum substrate thickness of 25 mm. The LP50 provides substrate temperature control with heating up to 90 °C and optional cooling down to 4 °C. The LP50 has stage accuracy of +/- 20 μm (3σ), stage precision of +/- 5 μm (3σ), and print speed up to 500 mm/s. The LP50 supports printheads with 16 to 2048 nozzles and drop sizes from 1 to 80 pL depending on the print head. The LP50 supports an ink viscosity range of 2 to 20 cP.^[1]

The LP50 also includes fast and accurate exchange of printheads and inks, automated printhead maintenance with capping, purging, spitting, and wiping, and optional glove-box integration for an inert environment. The LP50 has open architecture for user-defined and application-specific functionality. The LP50 can also be equipped with an advanced Gerber file rasterizer for conversion of Gerber files to an inkjet bitmap format.^[3]

The LP50 is designed for a wide range of applications such as semiconductor packaging, PCBs, printed electronics, photovoltaics, displays, and biomedical. The LP50 is used for inkjet process and materials development rather than only for a single fixed production step.^[1][3]

The LP50 supports solvent based, nanoparticle, aqueous, hotmelt, and UV-curable inks. The LP50 is used across semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards, printed electronics, photovoltaics, displays, and biomedical applications.^[1]

The PixDro LP50 Ink-jet Printer is used for the application of layers using inkjet printing. The tool is used with materials dissolved in aqueous or organic solvents, including PEDOT, OLED ink, black matrix, photoresist, liquid type insulators, and silver, copper, and other metallic inks. The tool can be used on media including textile, garment, glass substrates, PET film, solar cell wafers, and touch sensor glass. The tool is applied in flat panel display, solar cell, and sensor work.^[4]