Lab for printed electronics
The printed electronics lab has facilities for ink-jet printing, screen printing and coating. The main equipment is a Dimatix materials printer where the printing parameters can be controlled in detail. Different type of inks, such as a variety of nano particle inks, can be printed.
The lab also holds equipment for electrical measurements. Both a manual screen printing table and a semi-automatic machine.
Screen printing equipment.
Examples of ink-jet and screen printed devices
PEDOT:PSS and silver nano particle based thermoelectric generators.
Screen printed pressure sensors.
Additive manufacturing equipment
In the lab there is also equipment for manufacturing of filaments used for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) type Additive Manufacturing (AM). The machine is a Composer 350 from 3DEvo where the temperature and feeding parameters can be fully controlled and which have an automatic thickness control and spooling system. In addition there are an FFF machine to make test prints.
3DEvo, Composer 350 filament fabricator.
Composite filaments containing a mix of PLA and Expancel microspheres.