PLATFORM FOR ROBOTIC MICRO-EXPERIMENTATION OF SOLUTION-PROCESSED MATERIALS AND DEVICES

• Main Authors: Wang, Tonghui, Amassian, Aram, Mauthe, Jacob
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.08.2023
• Subjects: CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE; HAND TOOLS; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MANIPULATORS; MEASURING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; TESTING; TRANSPORTING

The present subject matter relates to systems and methods for the formulation of inks from stock solutions in which a liquid handler is configured to draw samples from a plurality of solution components and mix the components together to create one or more ink formulations, and a dispensing robot is configured to transfer the one or more ink formulations to a common substrate to form one or more material samples or a coating element in communication with the liquid handler is configured to transfer the one or more ink formulations to a common substrate to form one or more material samples. A controller in communication with each of the liquid handler and the dispensing robot can be configured to coordinate the creation and transfer of the one or more ink formulations. In addition, the one or more material samples can be analyzed using one or more characterization instrument configured to characterize the material samples on the common substrate.