During the project both laser-assisted inkjet printing
and laser-induced forward transfer of functional
materials were investigated. The project developed
industrial ultrafast DPSS lasers with non-contact
optical metrology heads for real-time monitoring of
deposition and patterning processes.
Further development work will be to assess the
economic feasibility of these technologies by providing
the expertise and capability to test and develop the
technologies from batch processes through to roll to
roll processes at pilot production scale.