BRISTOL, UK – DuPont Microcircuit Materials is collaborating with Holst Centre, an R&D center focused on printed electronics.

The collaboration is expected to advance technology specifically in the area of printed structures on flexible substrates, which has application in flexible display, RFID, lighting, biomedical and organic photovoltaic markets.

DuPont MCM will join the Printed Structures on Flexible Substrates program. The work will optimize printed metallic structures on flexible substrates in terms of conductivity, fine line deposition and low energy sintering.

Roll-to roll compatible printing techniques will be studied, including screen, flexography and ink jet. Alternative conductor metallurgies will be studied, as well as reactive systems for depositing conductive traces.