Ablating
RFID antennas, ablated roll-to-roll
Laser ablation removes aluminum from a paper liner to form the antenna — roll-to-roll, with no chemical etching.
Equipment
Industry
Flexible Electronics
LasX processes electronics materials — flexible circuit substrates, printed electronics, RFID antennas, radio-frequency interference (RFI) shielding, and precision apertures — as equipment and as contract work.
Roll-to-rollRFID antenna ablation in production
±25 µmRegistration to printed marks, on the fly
Applications
What LasX equipment does in Flexible Electronics
Cutting
Printed flex circuits, cut and picked
Each sheet is registered to the print by camera and cut without a die, and a vacuum pick head lifts the finished parts off the carrier.
Equipment
Cutting
RFI and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding
Shielding materials cut to precision apertures and outlines, with aperture geometry held digitally across the panel.
Equipment
Cutting
Flexible circuits to outline
Flex circuits cut to outline, registered to existing features with distortion compensation.
Equipment
Buy the equipment
Buy the equipment
ExactPro pairs dual-linear-motor precision with NIR and UV sources for aperture and circuit work where edge geometry decides yield. SheetPro takes the same work to boards and sheets larger than 670 × 670 mm.
- Aperture geometry held digitally across the panel
- Registration to printed marks held to ±25 µm on the fly
- Registration to existing features with distortion compensation
- NIR, green, and UV sources — nanosecond to femtosecond pulses — matched to the substrate
Have us make the parts
Have us make the parts
Contract cutting of shielding materials, flexible substrates, and precision film components, including RFI shielding.
- Prototype apertures in days
- No tooling cost across design revisions
Flexible-electronics work rewards the same thing diagnostics work does: geometry you can repeat without a tool that wears.
Materials we process here
Questions we get asked
What decides aperture quality from a laser?
Wall geometry. The aperture's wall angle and smoothness follow beam quality and parameters. It is measurable, and we measure it.
How closely do you register to printed features?
To printed registration marks, ±25 µm on the fly. Registration to copper features on polyimide depends on how the film moves with heat, humidity and web tension, so we establish it on your circuit in a trial.
The fastest way to find out is to send us the material.
Trials in the PhotonX lab come back as processed samples and a written report — not a proposal.