Multi-technology printing system
AssigneePhoton Jet Ltd
InventorAryeh Batt
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Abstract
A system for performing substrateless and/or local donor Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT), comprising a reservoir (9) comprising at least one opening; and an energy source configured to deliver energy to a donor material within said reservoir. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the energy source is a pulsed laser. This system enables deposition of material by LIFT without any need for a donor substrate. Methods of substrateless and local donor LIFT are also disclosed.
Claims44
A system for performing substrateless and/or local donor Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT), wherein said system comprises:
- a reservoir (9) comprising at least one opening;
- and,
- an energy source configured to deliver energy to a donor material within said reservoir and thereby initiate a LIFT process.
A multi-component LIFT system for printing, sintering, cleaning, curing, and patterning, comprising at least one printing head selected from the group consisting of a printing head that operates by substrateless LIFT;
- a printing head that operates by local donor LIFT;
- and at least one additional head selected from the group consisting of a sintering head and a UV curing head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.