EMC Pilot Line
Roll-to-roll printing of metal conductors on Corning® Willow® Glass (flexible glass) at 60 meters per minute sets a world speed record for printing flexible electronics on glass. The process surpasses the company s goal of achieving less than 5% loss in the transmission of light though the conductive layer.
The manufacture of transparent conducting films, commonly found in flat panel screens, touchscreens on phones and tablets, as well as solar panels, is a complex and costly production step requiring low resistance electrodes that transmit a large fraction of incident light. A key piece of our high-speed, low-cost model is to print all the layers of our solar module in one continuous inline process. Typical transparent conductors are manufactured using a high temperature, vacuum deposition process that is more than ten times too slow to be integrated into our high-speed inline system, stated Dr. Tom Tombs, EMC CTO. Our ability to print fine metal lines at