aNexus Xenon SINTERON 500 Photonic Curing R&D Systems

Researchers working with functional nano materials in the field of Printed Electronics have a new resource available. The benchtop SINTERON 500 systems from Xenon Corp. offer high peak energy, pulsed light technology to quickly heat and fuse conductive metallic ink flakes and nano inks at room temperature without significantly heating the substrate or adjacent thermally sensitive components. By controlling the pulse energy, various experiments are easily performed on flexible substrates.

The heart of Xenon’s sintering systems is a high energy, air cooled pulsed lamp designed for reliable, repeatable testing of a range of conductive nanomaterials such as silver and copper. The high intensity pulsed xenon lamp provides a broadband UV/Visible spectrum, from 240 to 1000 nm. The energy to the flashlamp is user controlled by adjusting the flashlamp voltage. The flexibility of the SINTERON 500 exposure area, pulse energies and lamp spectra, offers the user the ability to match the sintering needs of a range of nanoparticle inks and flakes on low-cost heat sensitive substrates such as PET and paper.

System Description

SINTERON 500 systems consist of a tabletop controller, separate lamp housing, sintering chamber and lamp housing air cooling. The controller provides all power and user control of the flashlamp mounted in an air-cooled lamp housing. The energy into the flash lamp is user controlled by adjusting the lamp voltage.

The SINTERON 500 can be ordered with different configurations

Lamp Housing Options

Two flashlamp housing options are available with optional attached sintering chambers. Selection is based on desired curing area and user adjustable pulse energy range. The controller is used with both lamp housings.

Features

• Adjustable exposure intensity: 290-830 Joules
• Exposure area options

                     7.6 x 7.6 cm (500-S)

                     1.9 x 30 cm (500-L)

                     30.5 x 30.5 cm (500-L with LS-845)

• Sintering Chamber
• Room temperature process

Sinter on heat sensitive materials: PET & Paper