Orbotech Ltd has announced that the company's end-to-end automated optical inspection (AOI) solutions have been selected by YUNGU (Gu'an) Technology its new flexible OLED Gen 6 fab.
The project execution is supported by Visionox, a Chinese flat panel display (FPD) manufacturer. The deal includes a large number of Orbotech AOI systems for TFT (thin-film transistor) Array and OLED-related layers for inspection and classification.
The new Gen 6 fab is located in Gu'an Hebei, China. Delivery is expected at the beginning of 2018.
Among the solutions provided is the Orbotech Quantum Flex series, which will resolve challenges that manufacturers typically face with OLED flexible display processes.
The production process required for flexible OLED panels is more sophisticated and complex than the process required for LCD panel manufacturing. This solution simultaneously inspects each panel multiple times in the same scan using different modalities, such as various light wave lengths and alternative angles.
Each modality provides an alternate perspective of the inspected pattern, and enables wider coverage of materials, patterns and defect types. The solution includes unique technologies to address the requirements of flexible OLED panel inspection.
"We are pleased to work with Orbotech and to implement its flexible OLED display inspection solutions"
"We expect that the implementation of Orbotech solutions in our new Gen 6 fab in Gu'an Hebei will contribute to our reputation for producing superior flexible OLED display products."
Mr. Ming Zhang, Vice President of YUNGU (Gu'an) Technology Co., LTD.
"We are happy to collaborate with Visionox to provide our state-of-the-art advanced yield management solutions for flexible OLED displays"
"We believe that our end-to-end AOI solutions will contribute significantly to the success of production processes for electronic personal devices."
Mr. Edu Meytal, President of Orbotech Pacific Display
About Orbotech's Quantum™ Flex AOI
Orbotech Quantum Flex series offers display manufacturers cutting-edge automated inspection solutions for all types of display technologies including flexible OLED. Orbotech FPD AOI systems increase production yields using advanced optics for image acquisition, unique image processing technologies, algorithms and data processing capabilities, microscopic video imaging, CD/Overlay measurements, and automated macro (Mura) inspection to enable high-sensitivity defect detection and extremely accurate classification.
The Orbotech Quantum Flex series solution increase production yields and provides inspection and classification for additional OLED related layers offering full coverage of both Micro and Macro inspection, layer thickness and defect height measurement, accurate location of defects within a stack of TFE (thin-film encapsulation) layers. The system can be operated in N2 environment.
About Visionox
Founded in 2001, Visionox Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise focusing on OLED technology development.
Visionox has been dedicated to the technological advancement of China sinceits foundation, and sticks to the development paths of focusing science and technology and persisting in innovation.
Visionox has become a leading enterprise of OLED industry till now,integrating R&D, mass production, marketing and sales. The PMOLED and AMOLED products of Visionox have been widely applied in consumer electronics, industrial control instruments, financial communications and other fields. Moreover, Visionox has occupied the highest position in PMOLED market share around the world for years, and is one of the few enterprises capable of conducting AMOLED mass production.
Visionox's predecessor is the Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED) Technology Group of Tsinghua University, which was established to speed up the OLED technology industrialization. Focusing on OLED industry for about 20 years, Visionox has always been taking the responsibility of leading China OLED industry through science and technology innovation as its own duty.
So far, Visionox has applied for over 2700 patents and participated in the formulation of OLED international standards based on its excellent technical strength and deep understanding of OLED industry.
Enacting the formulation or revision of 4 OLED international standards and leading the formulation of 5 OLED national standards and 3 OLED industrial standards, Visionox has stood on the commanding heights of international competition, and won the right of speech for our country.
Based on the achievements in the OLED industry, Visionox has won many important awards, such as the first prize of National Award for Technological Invention issued by the State Council, plus of the China Patent Gold Award jointly issued by WIPO and SIPO.
Source: Visionox
About Orbotech
Orbotech Ltd. is a leading global supplier of yield-enhancing and process-enabling solutions for the manufacture of electronics products. Orbotech provides cutting-edge solutions for use in the manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCBs), flat panel displays (FPDs), and semiconductor devices (SDs), designed to enable the production of innovative, next-generation electronic products and improve the cost effectiveness of existing and future electronics production processes.
Orbotech's core business lies in enabling electronic device manufacturers to inspect and understand PCBs and FPDs and to verify their quality ('reading'); pattern the desired electronic circuitry on the relevant substrate and perform three-dimensional shaping of metalized circuits on multiple surfaces ('writing'); and utilize advanced vacuum deposition and etching processes in SD and semiconductor manufacturing ('connecting'). Orbotech refers to this 'reading', 'writing' and 'connecting' as enabling the ‘Language of Electronics’.
Source: Orbotech
