XEROX Organic Thin Film Transistor Manufacturing Breakthrough - IDL and LabView Working Together
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Customer Challenge
XEROX needed to develop a more efficient and accurate method of organic thin film transistor manufacturing.
Solution Achieved
To solve their problem, they turned to IDL® and LabVIEW. At their Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), XEROX took a CAD circuit design and used IDL to formulate vectors and then render the image in off-screen memory. PARC then passed the vector image information to LabView to control a high-resolution printer for depositing organic electronic polymers and etch mask material. This new technique, made possible by IDL and LabView, allows XEROX to completely eliminate photolithography in the production of transistor arrays for displays and image sensors, saving them time and money in their manufacturing process.
IDL and LabVIEW proved to be essential in the development of the first plastic semiconductor transistor array entirely patterned using jet printing.
Key Benefits
- This new technique, made possible by IDL and LabView, allows XEROX to completely eliminate photolithography in the production of transistor arrays for displays and image sensors.
- By eliminating a major component of the manufacturing process using an IDL solution, (photolithography in the production of transistor arrays for displays and image sensors), XEROX has saved time and money.
- By combining the data acquisition capabilities of labVIEW with the analysis power of IDL, they can collect data and analyze it in real time.