Article Abstracts | January 2008
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Fabricating Flat Panel Displays with Lasers
For driving down costs while boosting yield and reliability, lasers are proving to be an indispensable manufacturing tool.
by Kunihiko Washio, Paradigm Laser Research, and Breck Hitz, Senior Technical Editor
Flat panel displays are sophisticated devices and require sophisticated manufacturing techniques. More and more, lasers are becoming an integral part of the manufacturing process for flat panel displays and other microelectronics because lasers can provide noncontact, high-speed processing that can bring significant cost savings. These advantages are possible thanks to the recent advances in power from diode lasers and the associated improvements in power, stability and overall performance of diode-pumped solid-state lasers.
But the improvements in laser performance alone are not sufficient to bring about the evolution that now is taking place in flat panel manufacturing. New techniques for using lasers, developed through a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem, combined with pre- and postprocessing optimization, are required...
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