Researchers from the Fontys University in The Netherlands have demonstrated that patterned plasma treatment of substrates gives them better control over inkjet printed structures (which results in higher quality printing).
The researches have used tailored wettability using InnoPhysics uPlasmaPrint technology that can locally change surfaces from hydrophilic to hydrophobic and vice-versa, creating patterns that make droplets spread in only one direction while restraining them in the other direction. Printed lines created in this way have both a very high homogeneity and a well-controlled width (without this technology the inkjet spreads in all directions which creates broader lines). In the research they used PixDro's LP-50 R&D inkjet printing platform.
A few weeks ago Universal Display invested $300,000 in a plasma processing equipment R&D company. It's possible that this company is InnoPhysics.
