Services
APPLICATIONS LABORATORY
The IDS Applications Lab supports customers from prototyping through pilot production, with aerosol printing, micro fabrication, and material testing. Experienced scientists, engineers, and technicians work directly alongside customers throughout development and deliver prototypes, detailed technical reports to document findings and guide next steps.
Example Work
- Printed antennas on heat-sensitive polycarbonate
- Edge coatings to modify optical refractive index
- Custom micro heater development
- High-Frequency 3D RF Interconnect prototyping
- Flat Panel display repair
- 3D antenna for extreme environments
- Biological stint coating
- Selective conductive interconnect printing for yield improvement
- 3D in-situ strain gauges
- Sensor micro-coating for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) medical devices
- Printed micro-pillars
- Miniature functional coating for gas sensor
- Circuit miniaturization demonstration
- Precision precious metal decorative coating
- Micro bumps for die packaging
- Four-material stack disposable thin film transistor
- High speed coating of precision sacrificial etch mask
CUSTOM HARDWARE DESIGN
Custom engineering services range from small modifications and accessories to full printer customization for production environments. If an off-the-shelf solution doesn’t meet your requirements, IDS will work with you to develop one that does.
INK AND MATERIAL
DEVELOPMENT
IDS offers material development consultation for aerosol printing, with decades of experience with inks, solvents, and co-solvents across a wide range of printed materials. The IDS staff will work with you to develop stable, functional formulations that perform consistently in your specific application.
TRAINING AND
CONSULTATION
Training and consulting services help customers get the most out of aerosol printing. The IDS team can assist you whether you’re just getting started or looking to deepen existing expertise. Introductory and advanced training is tailored to your team’s needs.
EQUIPMENT AND
CAPABILITIES
- Material Development and Prototyping
- Four 3-axis NanoJet Aerosol Printers
- 1 W/cm2 365 and 405 nm ultraviolet light inline- and post- processing
- 2 W 445 nm laser inline- and post- processing
- Cable assembly
- Through-hole PCB assembly
- Stirring Hot Plate
- Laboratory Convection Oven
- Heated vacuum chamber
- Nordson March Plasma Chamber (Argon, Oxygen, etc.)
- Digital precision adhesive dispenser
- Ultrasonic cleaner
- Variable speed ink vortexer
- Multi-position Ink roller
- Multi-speed shaker table
- Solids loading measurement and adjustment
- Engineering
- Print toolpath generation / optimization
- Strain gauge and resistor design
- FDM and Resin 3D printing
- Complex fixture and jig design
- Technical report generation
- Metrology
- Multimeter
- Milliohm Meter
- Oscilloscope
- Signal Generator
- Mettler AT20 Microbalance d=0.002mg
- Profilm3D White Light Profilometer
- 400X Magnification Inspection Microscopes
- Electrical probe station