AniConFilm

Anisotropic conductive materials (ACF) are film-type conductive adhesives allowing electrical and mechanical connection. They are used in applications like display production, printable flexible electronics, thermal interface materials. One of the consortium members, CondAlign AS, has developed a process that uses electric fields to align and distribute particles in polymer films. This allows production of ACFs with added functionality and reduced cost compared to other technologies. Today, quality inspection of the fabricated sample is only performed offline and is time consuming. There was a need for developing both offline and online characterization tool to achieve automatic and continuous production of CondAlign s ACF. The project developed a novel, automatic roll-to-roll (R2R) process, with increased production efficiency, for continuous production of anisotropic conductive films (ACF) for electronics and biomedical applications.