IMI Europe's Jetting Functional Fluids
June 22 - 23, 2015 - Munich UKIMI Europe
christine@imieurope.com
Phone:44-1223-236920
Fax:44-1223-235901
There is no doubt that digital deposition of functional materials, or more accurately functional fluids, using ink jet heads is an extremely attractive proposition: being able to place a tiny and highly controlled amount of fluid to a few microns of placement accuracy has the potential to drastically transform conventional manufacturing processes. Whether the functional fluids have electronic, pharmaceutical or other important attributes, the challenges of getting them to “jet” with suitable performance and to “functionalise” on the target substrate are often common headaches for the material deposition community. In this course we will focus on the practicalities of ink jet printing of what we may call “challenging fluids”. We will consider in detail the basic building blocks of a material deposition ink jet system: the ink jet heads, ink, the motion platform, the substrate and methods available to make working printed structures. In addition we will provide a background on how we can fine-tune inks and their jetting waveforms to improve performance. The course will also provide a sometimes salutary background on conventional manufacturing capabilities that must be matched for material deposition by ink jet to move into large scale production environments. DMP LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS As part of the course, Neil will be carrying out demonstrations using a deposition system - your chance to see this deposition platform in action, including built in drop-watcher.