Ceradrop - Inkjet Technology, Aerosol Jet, Digital Printing, Printed Electronics, Smart 3D, 3D, Piezoelectric inkjet printer (2024)

CeraPrinter

All-in-one State-of-the-art DigitalMaterials Deposition Platform

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CeraPrinter F-Serie is All-in-one State-of-the-art Digital Materials Deposition Platform for process development in Printed Electronics and Smart 3D Printing. In addition to all the CeraPrinter advantages, F-Serie is a hybrid materials deposition platform combining Inkjet and Aerosol Jet® technologies. Its single user-friendly software opens the way to study hybrid process inaccessible by Inkjet or Aerosol Jet® separately. Defined as a modular-based scalable technology able to easily integrate several post-processes in-line at lowest cost, on minimum of footprint, with more capabilities, CeraPrinter F-Serie just enables you to succeed.

Avantages

  • Designed for Advanced Digital Process Development in multidisciplinary fields
  • Modular-Based Scalable Technology for quick and easy upgrade
  • Latest key technologies in one tool enabling multi-team co-working
  • User-friendly single interface for all integrated technologies

Exemples d'applications électroniques

  • HF Antenna
  • RFID
  • OPV photovoltaics,
  • OLED displays and lightning
  • Interconnection
  • Printed memories
  • Photodetectors
  • Sensors
  • Semiconductor
  • Printed Batteries
  • Smart packaging
  • LTCC
  • MLCC Multilayer Ceramic Capacitor
  • Magnetic components
  • Temperature sensors
  • Piezoelectric actuators
  • Coating smart surface
  • Fuel cells
  • Flexible Electronics
  • In-mold Electronics
  • Supercapacitors
  • Wearables electronics senros
  • 3D Electronics
  • 5G/6G
  • Advanced Materials
  • Carbon electronics
  • Conductive inks
  • Digital Printing
  • e-textiles
  • Green materials and electronics
  • inkjet printing
  • multimaterial printing
  • printed sensors
  • stretchable electronics
  • transparent conductive films

Spécifications

  • Substrate up to 305 mm x 305 mm with thickness up to 10mm (larger on request)
  • High accuracy five axis with motorized adjustable printing resolution, substrate alignment (+/-2 μm) and nozzles self calibration (< +/-3 μm)
  • Up to five different printheads (more on request) to deposit wide range of functional inks and high viscous pastes
  • Able to print in Raster-Scan Mode (X or Y), Vector Mode (XY) and Single Pass (X or Y)

Hardware

Motion system: high accuracy calibrated five axis device

Three translation axis and two motorized rotations (printheads resolution calibration + substrate alignment)
X and Y stage accuracy< +/- 1.5 µm
Z accuracy< +/- 2 µm
X and Y stage repeatability< +/- 0.5 µm
Z repeatability< +/- 1 µm
Print velocityup to 500 mm/s

Printheads holder: motorized and plug & play

Embeds easily a wide range of printheads with motorized resolution fine tuning and nozzles position self calibration
Print resolution< 5 μm x 5 μm
Printheads numberUp to 4 Inkjet heads and 1 Aerosol Jet® head
Printhead typesSingle nozzle

Low cost Dimatix Cartridges

Drive per nozzle printheads

Dimatix, Konica-Minolta and other on request

(Xaar, Kyocera, Ricoh, Toshiba, Seiko…etc.)

Aerosol Jet® TechnologyPneumatic atomizer and Fine feature printhead

Nozzle size 100 μm to 300 μm

Ink viscosity 1-1000 cP

Mounting“Smart door” technology

Accurate fast mount for printheads and its electronics

Ink tankCartridge 2 mL to 50 mL

Aggressive solvents compatible

Printhead heatingUp to 60°C
Printhead MaintenanceAutomated cleaning station

Substrate holder: motorized vacuum heated chuck

Designed to manage a wide range of substrates for many applications
Size305 mm x 305 mm
ClampingVacuum with different areas
HeatingUp to 60°C

Mechanical

Machine footprint1520 mm x 1870 mm x 1970 mm
Machine mean weight1800 kg
Power400 V/32A, 3 phases
Certification / SafetyCE (UL & CSA on request)

Camera: three devices with different light sources

Three cameras with different light sources to check jetting, to align substrate, to analyze all parts of printed components and in-situ Aerosol Jet® follow
Droplet analysis
CCD1624 x 1228 pixels
Visualization area1.79 x 1.35 mm
Image analysisFully automated (DropAnalyser)
Alignement and printed components analysis
CCD1624 x 1228 pixels
Visualization area1.79 x 1.35 mm
Alignment typesMarks, edge or specific if required
Image analysisFully automated (FabAnalyser)
In-situ Aerosol Jet® process analysis
CMOS color camera2592 x 1944 pixels
Visualization area1.900 x 1.425 mm

Up to 3 Post-treatment: to dry and to cure printed layers

Fully integrated and synchronized with the printing for all kind
of drying/curing devices
Post-process compatibilityIR, UV, AdphosNIR®, Novacentrix PulseForge®, Xenon Sinteron, Vacuum Drying
Substrate managementDirectly by the manufacturing linear axis to avoid substrate manipulation
Solvent extractionExhaust connection

Options

IR DryingPrinthead slot
UVLaser reflectometer
AdphosNIR®,Novacentrix PulseForge®HEPA filter
Xenon Sinteron, Vacuum DryingAutomated refill system (on request)
Other post-treatmentDedicated software add-on
Specific hardware modificationAutomated Handling (on request)
Automated sheet resistance measurement probe

Software

DropAnalyser: advanced droplets jetting analysis

Real time automated vision software
Waveform tuningReal time, fully open, drive per nozzle
AutomationAutomatic printheads mapping
AnalysisVolume, velocity, jet straightness error

Clogged nozzles detection

Self nozzles positions calibration

Drop to drop variation

ReportingStatistic

Automatic full jetting report creation

FabAnalyser: printed layers analysis and substrate alignment functions

Layers analysisAutomated measurements (distance, area)

Automated full printing area acquisition

Thickness measurement with 3D reconstruction (laser reflectometer option required)

Substrate alignmentManual or automatic

Can be fully adapted to customer application

CeraSlice: exclusive printing jobs conception software

Bottom-up approach to import, to edit, to simulate and to sequence the printing of a wide range of printed electronics and smart 3D printing designs
File formatStep, DXF, Gerber, GDSII, Bitmap.
Job editingDirectly from standard CAD file via CAD/CAM tool
Printing job parametersFully tunable for each part or under part of the component
Manufacturing script editionEasy and fast, for each step of the printing process (printing vector, nozzle clogging control, alignment, printhead cleaning etc.)
Printing simulation visualizationStep by step, materials by materials
Experiment plansAutomated experiment plans generation to optimize inkjet process (fully customizable)
Customizable

pre-loaded patterns

Square transistors, circular transistors, multilayer capacitors, induction, coil, etc.

Notre offre

The whole CeraPrinter equipment range is high accuracymulti-material deposition systems with in-line multicuringtechnologies, in-situ characterization facilitiesembedded simultaneously enabling high precisiondeposition of functional materials and full area curing ineach pass.

Evolutionary at lowest cost and delivered with exclusivesoftware suite developed by CERADROP (CeraSlice,DropAnalyser and FabAnalyser) allowing its quick startup,easy to use and bottom-up approach for functionalcomponents design.

To go forward with our customers, we provide strongpartnership, highly qualified, responsive worldwidemaintenance and support team to provide assistancethrough each stage of project development.

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