Direct Laser Patterning of Coatings – As a Job Shop Service or as a Laser Product

Laserod is proud to be in the forefront of laser patterning, also referred to as etching, for displays such as a touch screens. Other terms for this process are laser structuring and laser scribing. This patterning process removes the invisible and conductive material coating on the display to leave behind a functional circuit, or pattern, on the display.  The remaining conductive pattern guides the electrical signals go where they are intended. The etched/scribed circuit patterns are applied to a thin coating of Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) on a substrate of glass or plastic film. Examples of TCO are Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), carbon nanotubes, and thin gold coatings. TCO coated glass and plastic are typically used in flat panels, windshields, architectural windows, photovoltaics, and touch screen displays. They are cut by us down to 10 micron laser cut width. For large area removal we simply overlap the ablated 10um spots at high laser repetition rates and at high beam speed to remove large areas of the coatings without damage to the underlying glass or PET substrates.

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