Direct metal transfer printing on flexible substrate for fabricating optics functional devices
Affiliation
Soochow UniversityIssue Date
2015-12-31Subjects
transfer printing
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New functional materials and devices based on metal patterns can be widely used in many new and expanding industries,such as flat panel displays, alternative energy,sensors and so on. In this paper, we introduce a new transfer printing method for fabricating metal optics functional devices. This method can directly transfer a metal pattern from a polyethylene terephthalate (PET)supported UV or polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) pattern to another PET substrate. Purely taking advantage of the anaerobic UV curing adhesive (a-UV) on PET substrate, metal film can be easily peeled off from micro/nano-structured surface. As a result, metal film on the protrusion can be selectively transferred onto the target substrate, to make it the metal functional surface. But which on the bottom can not be transferred. This method provides low cost fabrication of metal thin film devices by avoiding high cost lithography process. Compared with conventional approach, this method can get more smooth rough edges and has wider tolerance range for the original master mold. Future developments and potential applications of this metal transfer method will be addressed.Citation
Jiang Y, Zhou X, Zhang F, Shi Z, Chen L, Peng C (2015) 'Direct metal transfer printing on flexible substrate for fabricating optics functional devices', International Workshop on Thin Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors - Suzhou, SPIE.Publisher
SPIEJournal
AOPC 2019: NANOPHOTONICSType
Conference papers, meetings and proceedingsLanguage
enISSN
0277-786XEISSN
1996-756Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1117/12.2199655