From feasibility and design to volume manufacturing of first-of-a-kind R2R equipment

Presented by Sorin Stan, VDL Enabling Technologies Group

What does flexible electronics have in common with hybrid bonding? Or atomic later deposition on protective glass for watches with perovskite solar cells? Manufacturing components by thin-film deposition techniques on various substrates has challenged the engineers in various technical domains for quite some time now. Finding the common knowhow and the synergy in developing and building equipment that handles rigid panels (sheet-to-sheet production), flexible foils (roll-to-roll production), wafers, or unconventional substrates may seem far from an easy task. And yet it is possible to find common ground and create first-of-a-kind machinery by reusing and reshaping the expertise in thin-film equipment across many industrial domains.