Allow Lower Cost Printing of Electrodes and Interconnects for Displays and
Touch Screens
CLEVELAND, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Five Star Technologies announced that
it will introduce ElectroSperse(TM) P-series silver-based conductor pastes
at Display Week 2008 in Los Angeles on May 18-23. The new pastes are
designed for use on low temperature plastic substrates typically found in
such applications as display electrodes, touch screen sensors, heaters,
RFID antenna, biosensors and membrane switches. The initial P-series
products are targeted for use in touch screen sensors, combining high
productivity and ease of use with excellent conductivity and exceptional
printability. The new pastes demonstrate excellent adhesion to a variety of
flexible media, including ITO (Indium Tin Oxide)-coated polyester.
Like all pastes in the ElectroSperse line, the P-series products
contain a highly uniform dispersion of silver with a tightly controlled
particle size distribution in the low to sub-micron range. Such uniformity
enables customers to directly print features as small as 50 um with much
greater precision and consistency than conventional pastes, eliminating the
need for costly subtractive processes. Initial grades are intended for
screen printing applications, but Five Star will soon introduce a series of
products with controlled rheology to match a variety of printing processes.
The ElectroSperse line also includes D-series silver-based cermet
pastes, designed for firing onto glass and other high temperature
substrates. D-series pastes are available in both leaded and lead-free
versions and offer a unique combination of high conductivity, fine line
printing, strong adhesion to coated-glass substrates. Specific grades are
available with firing temperatures as low as 380C, a temperature that often
lends itself to significantly greater overall product stability. D-series
pastes are ideal for printed interconnects and linearization patterns in
capacitive and 5-wire resistive touch screen sensors.
About Five Star Technologies
Five Star Technologies is a supplier of high-performance dispersions,
inks and pastes used in displays, photovoltaics and microelectronic
packaging applications. Combining its patented hydrodynamic cavitation
process with innovative chemistry, Five Star produces the ElectroSperse
series of inks and pastes as well as a wide range of precision dispersions.
All Five Star products exhibit unparalleled rheological stability and
exceptional particle size control, creating the future in functional inks.
For more information, please visit Five Star Technologies website at
http://www.fivestartech.com.
About Display Week
The SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, now in its
46th year and known as Display Week, is the premier international gathering
of scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users in the electronic-display
industry. The event provides access to a wide range of technology and
applications from high-definition flat-panel displays using both emissive
and liquid-crystal technology to the latest in OLED displays and large-area
projection-display systems. One can find state-of-the-art information on
the latest in image processing, systems software and display processor
hardware, human factors and applied vision, and exciting new applications
such as multimedia and the electronic cinema. With more than 550 booths and
8,000 attendees, SID is the leading North American show for the
electronic-display industry.
SOURCE Five Star Technologies
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Related links:
http://www.fivestartech.com
http://www.sid.org/conf/sid2008/sid2008.html
CONTACT:
Timothy E. Fahey, Vice President, Business
Development, Five Star Technologies, +1-216-447-8497,
tfahey@fivestartech.com; Tom Gibson of The Gibson Network,
+1-216-320-1520, tgibson1@ameritech.net
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