Short Course - Wet Processing Technologies for Large Area Electronics

TuesDAY 18 February 2025

Cripps Court Conference Centre, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK

COURSE FOCUS

The Wet Processing Short Course is delivered by Printed Electronics Ltd (PEL). It covers the inks and printer technology required for deposition techniques including screen, inkjet and flexo/gravure printing. The short course also covers coating techniques such as doctor blade and slot die, drawdown, spin and spray coating. In each case the advantages, disadvantages and technological challenges of each technique will be covered, along with issues arising in scale up for manufacture.

COURSE OUTLINE

TuesDAY 18 February 2025

13:00 – 13:30 Registration

13:30 Course begins

Wet Processing (Formulation, Coating and Printing)

Materials and Formulation

• Inks

  • Silver, copper, carbon and other ink materials

• Formulation

  • Rheology

  • Solvent-based inks

  • Curable inks

  • Ink formulation components

  • Mixing and scale-up

• Substrates

  • Polymers, glass, paper, textiles and metals

Printing

• Inkjet

• Screen print

• Other print technologies such as flexography, gravure etc.

17:00 Course ends

COURSE LEADERS

Dr Neil Chilton, Technical Director
Printed Electronics Limited, UK

Neil has more than twenty years’ experience in the field of electronics and electronic components. After completing his BSc and PhD in Physics, his technical career took him to Japan where he worked for four years at the advanced materials research division of Nippon Steel Corporation. After returning to the UK he joined Europe’s then largest printed circuit board manufacturing company where he was later part of an MBO team and technical director. In 2006, together with co-founder Dr Steve Jones, he started Printed Electronics Limited to focus on the practical use of inkjet for manufacturing electronic interconnects, devices and systems.

Dr Clare Conboy, Formulation Chemist
Printed Electronics Limited, UK

Clare has more than 20 years’ experience of formulating and characterising fluids for spray and printing applications. This includes many years of working with inkjet inks for piezo and thermal DOD printheads, initially for graphics and in recent years for materials deposition applications, including a diverse range of materials including metals, inorganics and adhesives in a range of solvent systems. Following completion of a PhD in Chemistry, she has worked for a number of organisations with a focus on inkjet technology, including Xaar and Plastic Logic. Clare has been involved with Printed Electronics Limited since its establishment.